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NEXT MEETING: Saturday 13 May 2023, Helen Groth Writing, Listening, Rioting: The Case of Charlotte Brontë's Shirley (1849)
This talk will begin with a close reading of the moment in Charlotte Brontë's Shirley when the narrator, after describing 'a West-Riding-clothing-district-of-Yorkshire rioters' yell', directly addresses the reader and asks: 'You never heard that sound, perhaps, reader?' A question that opens up a space to consider, as I hope to do, how Brontë tests the acoustic limits of the novel form in this moment. A specific focus, that will hopefully answer another more general question: what can we learn about Charlotte Brontë's writing by revisiting this complex politically charged scene in one of her lesser known novels?
The Australian Brontë Association is a literary society devoted to the study and enjoyment of the Brontë family: Charlotte (author of Jane Eyre, among others), Emily (Wuthering Heights) and Anne (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), together with their brother Branwell, and other sisters Maria and Elizabeth.
The Australian Brontë Association meets approximately every two months. At each meeting a talk is given on some aspect of the Brontë's life and works or the world in which they lived.
The ABA is independent of the (UK) Brontë Society but it grew out of a group of Australian members of the Brontë Society and we still maintain strong links with the parent body. The Australian Representative of the Brontë Society is a member of the Australian Brontë Association.
The current President of the ABA is Michelle Cavanagh.
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