The Brontë sisters are fabulous! I really like their cunning portraits of old England and Brussels characters; in spite of all changes that space and time may produce, people remain the same, and their mean feelings and deep passions are still the same today, no matter where one may l be.
i love their books. i went to their house and my name is Bronte and the lady who gave us leaflets before we went in said for all the years that she has worked with the Bronte society she has never come across a Bronte coming to visit the home but she has come across many ann, emilys and charlottes but never a Bronte
On the contrary I believe that the Brontes were saved by their imagination. The fascination that they create in people's minds has to do with the fact that they lived totally flat lives on the outside but very rich and complex inner feelings. If they were to write only by experience they wouldn't have much to say. They were poor, obscure spinsters. Instead they set an example that even the most boring of lives can be made into something valuable. And that leaves hope for anyone.
Thank you for uploading this! I have been looking for this documentary for ages as I was sure I saw a drama/documentary about the Brontes a few years ago and now I've found it :)
When you hear of an age expectancy of 26 - though likely brought down by child mortality - you really have to admire any determination to become learned during such times.
Why? Were they not going ot study because life expectancy was by our standards low? The girls knew they would not have any money except what they earned and they were not that likely to marry... so they had to gtet an education
Background music competes with narration. Difficult to concentrate on words, with that music sort of blasting over the voice. I was interested in this topic, but found it necessary to click off. Did the producer of this video ever try to listen to the narration, with that background noise running through it?
@RushTheSilver Life is not all poetry but literature is not all realism either. I agree about you on Villette. I admire Charlotte even more about it. Although Jane Eyre still amazes me that can pass so many strong feelings and thoughts with that outrageous plot. In the hands of any other author it would be doomed.
I agree. Great job. My favorite part is the siblings playing on the moors. But why do these films always have characters/people from Northern England speaking with Southern English accents? I was glad in the recent 2009 film version of Wuthering Heights on Masterpiece Theatre that Cathy had a Yorkshire accent.
That is a ridiculous thing to say. Most of the best writers and artists flee into their imagination and develop very complex and amazing worlds. Most of our reality is created through imagination, and the hardships we experience as well. Whether something is misplaced or not is a matter of perspective. Our lives are very short anyways, why waste it on being boring.
@RushTheSilver If Charlotte were so jealous of her sisters, she would never have shared an ambitious plan like this with them. She could proceed alone in the pursuit of fame and it is quite certain that Emily especially, but Anne too, would never have ventured to publish a line. For me Charlotte and Emily are both geniuses although personally I'm more moved by the former. Anne although she had qualities of her own, she did not possess that certain quality of writing to be distinguished.
Brilliant Film.Super Narrator.Definately not Cheesy.Get on a Train,go up to Haworth,go in the Church and stand in the graveyard.You will feel the atmosphere.Overwhelming.If you dont feel this you should stay at home and watch drivel like east enders.
@RushTheSilver There is no evidence that Charlotte burned anything. We are not sure that a manuscript existed save a letter of Emily's publisher says that he would be glad to receive from her a new work but that doesn't prove she had really written anything, let alone that if the manuscript existed it could have been destroyed by Anne (being closer to Emily) or Emily herself when she realized she was going to die.
you are welcome. i will respond to the others. Regarding Southern and Northern accents, they were so different to me because I am American that for awhile, I would be confused if Northerners I heard speak were from Scotland. For a slight example of the difference, listen closely to the accents of Margret and Mr. Thorton in the film North and South. However, I probably would not be able to tell the difference in Greek accents!
In the present case, and just as one remarkable example of the wrongness of this film, it’s important to have in mind that very few things are known about Emily and Anne Brontë’s personalities. “Shadowy figures” are the words used by Juliet Barker in her monumental work (published in 1994, nine years before the documentary film) which stands as the main biographical reference in the field of Brontë studies - and if you are lucid, she’s right.
I have not much experience with accents so I didn't notice it at all. I also want to say that it was a great pleasure reading and answering your comments. Thanks for participating!
@RushTheSilver I am positive that there is no evidence of the existence of Emily's manuscript and even if that documentary mentioned something like it, it was clearly based on supposition because neither the Saga of the Gondal has survived and Charlotte was the last remaining sister. I don't see why it is wrong to suggest that Emily or Anne could have destroyed the hypothetical manuscript. Emily was very keen on her privacy and if it was half finished she may not want anyone to see it.
@RushTheSilver I can not express a general opinion about George Eliot since I have read only Middlemarch & The mill on the floss. The Floss didn't impress me much because after Jane Eyre I thought that she left kind of unresolved the dilemma. I would really liked Maggie to have taken a decision. Middlemarch was a slow reading at first but I liked the balanced way she moves the characters and creates society. She is a realist so you will like her.I have a documentary about her too in my channel.
@RushTheSilver I was more surprised by how much emotionally insecure that woman-genius must have felt to make such disastrous affairs (like the one with her publisher) to tolerate all that. And the fact that her literature is not shocking at all while Charlotte's who lived her life more conventional was more shocking to the Victorians.
@RushTheSilver This is seriously what you got out of Jane Eyre? I am not surprised about the opinion you have about the novel. I wonder though why you took the bother to read the book. You could say as much by the abstract. In the same light Helen was a fool who married a fiend only because auntie told her not too and she had the super power of love. And after tolerating all with super-christian morality took the sole good decision of leaving him only to return and then marry colorless Gilbert.
So much is said about the BGrontes but most of it is rubbish, how do I know this? i am related to them My name is Branwell, so many "hangers on" in the literary world
Im trying to learn to read Modern Greek by matching narration to subtitles AND follow the Bronte story at the same time, Difficult, At 5,40 it mentions their father was an Irish parson, True,,Patrick Bronte wad Irish born raised and educated,That makes the sistere Irish,,, an Irish colony,Much more should be made of this
@RushTheSilver Part of Angria have survived but only some poems of the Gondal. There is no absurdity in destroying personal stuff that you don't want the world to see yet. Painters do it all the time. Emily would not try to publish anything considering it too private,if Charlotte hadn't convince her of the merit to the world. If Jane Eyre is just romance to you then you have missed all the point of the novel. An article in a newspaper is reality too but doesn't make it great literature.
Firstly, who cares? Secondly, being from an area doesn't make you 100% anything. You only need look at the thousands of ancestry DNA testing videos on here to understand that.
Not one mention of their real nationality and forced exile from Ireland. Even to this day the English cannot bring themselves to own up and tell the truth regarding Ireland!
No they weren't as fanatical as that! Lol! You may be pleased to learn that Charlotte Bronte gave up her imaginary world when she was 23 because she was tired of "it's burning clime" and wanted to face a "gray dawn" (her words). They knew the distinction and only used it as fountain of courage and support when the ugly reality was too much to bear.
"You may be pleased to learn that Charlotte Bronte gave up her imaginary world when she was 23"- what is there to be pleased about? She went to her imaginary world again I believe, and bought Elizabeth Hastings and Zamorna back, in 1847, and wrote, what is most famous of her works. All her works that deals with "reality" and "real life" are much less powerful (save Villette, who is a masterpiece, but, I believe, for it's psychological depth, not because of it's realism).
@RushTheSilver Now don't think that I don't like Anne at all as a writer.I have read her books.Agnes Grace is didactic but not very interesting The tenant is better but it suffers due to its structure.After the diary part I could not connect easily to the story again.And Helen sometimes irritated me with her piousness (I mean how cliche to go back to her husband) but still she was a brave woman&I understand the value of Anne's advice to the youth but she did not possess the poetry of her sisters
@RushTheSilver I admire Anne's realism and common sense but that alone does not make her a great writer. There is not a piece of writing of hers that I could read and immediately say "Oh, yes this is definitely Anne Bronte". She has not a distinguished style. While I can laugh with Jane Eyre being the incredibly story that it is but every time it manages to move me and Charlotte's style can be spotted by a mile.
@RushTheSilver Unfortunately Bella and Edward tend to be rather more important persons in this world than more pithy characters. I wonder what Meyer's readers make out of Wuthering Heights anyway. They are difficult enough to fathom as they are, let alone having in mind totally romantic sugary situations. They are up for some serious disillusions Lol!
@RushTheSilver That doesn't say much as you don't like Charlotte anyway. Lol! So you don't fool me, but I am as sensitive about Charlotte as you are about Anne. And remember it was you who started it :) I have nothing against Anne but I am tired of defending Charlotte because Anne's works do not enjoy the same recognition.
I must side with Bertha's comment below. While this isn't as criminally awful as most biopics tend to be, the presence of actors makes this "documentary" horribly cheesy. I'm gonna give part 2 a shot, but I might have to stop there. The narrator does a decent enough job at telling us the fascinating story of the Brontë family, and as a result those tacked scenes are completely unnecessary and feel phony at best
However, here, Emily and Anne are shown with such a denial of scientific rigour, and not because the makers of the documentary film didn’t know that you cannot say really something sure about their character, but because TV channels want to broadcast such fanciful productions. I hope there are a lot of people interested in Brontë sisters that are not happy with this proper stupid work that BBC decided to offer to the public (alas again).
I don’t speak English very well but I want to express my anger against this documentary film. In general, I dislike fictional documentaries films because they show too many things you simply cannot know. I have the feeling they are destined to lazy children you cannot get interested in anything without making a big show.
My son Erin played Branwell . He is now 23 and it’s lovey to see him at 4yrs old again. Xx
I can not get enough of the Brontes
The Brontë sisters are fabulous! I really like their cunning portraits of old England and Brussels characters; in spite of all changes that space and time may produce, people remain the same, and their mean feelings and deep passions are still the same today, no matter where one may l be.
i love their books.
i went to their house and my name is Bronte and the lady who gave us leaflets before we went in said for all the years that she has worked with the Bronte society she has never come across a Bronte coming to visit the home but she has come across many ann, emilys and charlottes but never a Bronte
On the contrary I believe that the Brontes were saved by their imagination. The fascination that they create in people's minds has to do with the fact that they lived totally flat lives on the outside but very rich and complex inner feelings. If they were to write only by experience they wouldn't have much to say. They were poor, obscure spinsters. Instead they set an example that even the most boring of lives can be made into something valuable. And that leaves hope for anyone.
Thank you for uploading this! I have been looking for this documentary for ages as I was sure I saw a drama/documentary about the Brontes a few years ago and now I've found it :)
Thank you for posting these wonderful videos! Your work is appreciated. - from a big fan of the Brontes and other Victorian writers.
When you hear of an age expectancy of 26 - though likely brought down by child mortality - you really have to admire any determination to become learned during such times.
Why? Were they not going ot study because life expectancy was by our standards low? The girls knew they would not have any money except what they earned and they were not that likely to marry... so they had to gtet an education
I love Anne's poetry
Thank you for sharing this.
I love Brontes
Background music competes with narration. Difficult to concentrate on words, with that music sort of blasting over the voice. I was interested in this topic, but found it necessary to click off. Did the producer of this video ever try to listen to the narration, with that background noise running through it?
The subtitles are good for who want to learn the modern Greek language
@RushTheSilver
Life is not all poetry but literature is not all realism either. I agree about you on Villette. I admire Charlotte even more about it. Although Jane Eyre still amazes me that can pass so many strong feelings and thoughts with that outrageous plot. In the hands of any other author it would be doomed.
Agreed. I think I'd know that voice anywhere. Patricia is a marvelous woman in her own right.
The narration is by Patricia Routledge (Hyacinth Bucket in "Keeping Up Appearances")
I love when Hyacinth gets a phone call from Mrs. Slocombe in “Are You Being Served” 😂😂😂
I just noticed the Garcia Marquez video - wow! Nicely done! He's one of my favorite writers along with Jane Austen. Bravo!
The cast is amazing, thanks for posting!
Who is the cast?
Thanks, this has been added to our playlists here, and on facebook....
I love, love, this one.
And we must never forget Vivian, the lost Bronte.
I agree. Great job. My favorite part is the siblings playing on the moors. But why do these films always have characters/people from Northern England speaking with Southern English accents? I was glad in the recent 2009 film version of Wuthering Heights on Masterpiece Theatre that Cathy had a Yorkshire accent.
That is a ridiculous thing to say. Most of the best writers and artists flee into their imagination and develop very complex and amazing worlds. Most of our reality is created through imagination, and the hardships we experience as well. Whether something is misplaced or not is a matter of perspective. Our lives are very short anyways, why waste it on being boring.
@RushTheSilver
If Charlotte were so jealous of her sisters, she would never have shared an ambitious plan like this with them. She could proceed alone in the pursuit of fame and it is quite certain that Emily especially, but Anne too, would never have ventured to publish a line.
For me Charlotte and Emily are both geniuses although personally I'm more moved by the former. Anne although she had qualities of her own, she did not possess that certain quality of writing to be distinguished.
poor woman! to die so young , to leave behind her children ,without her presence! to bring them to life ,but not live and see them grow !
Is there a way to eliminate all the captions? Thank you!
Brilliant Film.Super Narrator.Definately not Cheesy.Get on a Train,go up to Haworth,go in the Church and stand in the graveyard.You will feel the atmosphere.Overwhelming.If you dont feel this you should stay at home and watch drivel like east enders.
+Lindsaypeter Holden Isn't the narrator Patricia Routledge? I think it sounds like her.
The narative is spoken by Patricia Routlege.
@BeholdTheCircusFreak
Euxaristo polu patrida! To youtube den me eidopoiise gia to sxolio sou allos tha sou milousa noritera :)
You are welcome!
@RushTheSilver
There is no evidence that Charlotte burned anything. We are not sure that a manuscript existed save a letter of Emily's publisher says that he would be glad to receive from her a new work but that doesn't prove she had really written anything, let alone that if the manuscript existed it could have been destroyed by Anne (being closer to Emily) or Emily herself when she realized she was going to die.
you are welcome. i will respond to the others. Regarding Southern and Northern accents, they were so different to me because I am American that for awhile, I would be confused if Northerners I heard speak were from Scotland. For a slight example of the difference, listen closely to the accents of Margret and Mr. Thorton in the film North and South. However, I probably would not be able to tell the difference in Greek accents!
In the present case, and just as one remarkable example of the wrongness of this film, it’s important to have in mind that very few things are known about Emily and Anne Brontë’s personalities. “Shadowy figures” are the words used by Juliet Barker in her monumental work (published in 1994, nine years before the documentary film) which stands as the main biographical reference in the field of Brontë studies - and if you are lucid, she’s right.
I have not much experience with accents so I didn't notice it at all.
I also want to say that it was a great pleasure reading and answering your comments. Thanks for participating!
@RushTheSilver
I am positive that there is no evidence of the existence of Emily's manuscript and even if that documentary mentioned something like it, it was clearly based on supposition because neither the Saga of the Gondal has survived and Charlotte was the last remaining sister. I don't see why it is wrong to suggest that Emily or Anne could have destroyed the hypothetical manuscript. Emily was very keen on her privacy and if it was half finished she may not want anyone to see it.
She might have been working on something and been dissatisfied with it....
A story about ill-fated but gifted Brontes.
The Brontes are positively addictive once you've caught the 'bug'. I think even more so than Jane Austen---
@RushTheSilver
I can not express a general opinion about George Eliot since I have read only Middlemarch & The mill on the floss. The Floss didn't impress me much because after Jane Eyre I thought that she left kind of unresolved the dilemma. I would really liked Maggie to have taken a decision. Middlemarch was a slow reading at first but I liked the balanced way she moves the characters and creates society. She is a realist so you will like her.I have a documentary about her too in my channel.
They moved to Haworth in April 1820
Starring Victoria Hamilton as Charlotte Bronte.
Σ΄ευχαριστω που το ανεβασες.. ποσα επεισοδια εχει?
watched it mostly cos of the narrator ;-)
@RushTheSilver
I was more surprised by how much emotionally insecure that woman-genius must have felt to make such disastrous affairs (like the one with her publisher) to tolerate all that. And the fact that her literature is not shocking at all while Charlotte's who lived her life more conventional was more shocking to the Victorians.
@RushTheSilver
This is seriously what you got out of Jane Eyre? I am not surprised about the opinion you have about the novel. I wonder though why you took the bother to read the book. You could say as much by the abstract. In the same light Helen was a fool who married a fiend only because auntie told her not too and she had the super power of love. And after tolerating all with super-christian morality took the sole good decision of leaving him only to return and then marry colorless Gilbert.
@JaponLights
You don't like Charlotte's personality? Why? I know many people who feel that they love her even though they never met her.
you just saved my day :DDDD
5:27 :) thats me and i cant believe ive finally found it and the little girl afterwards is my sister :DDDDDDD
@RushTheSilver
No, I simply read a lot because I like it, but secondary you can say that it helps me in my work. I'll explain in a message.
So much is said about the BGrontes but most of it is rubbish, how do I know this? i am related to them My name is Branwell, so many "hangers on" in the literary world
Which one is your favorite?
Im trying to learn to read Modern Greek by matching narration to subtitles AND follow the Bronte story at the same time, Difficult, At 5,40 it mentions their father was an Irish parson, True,,Patrick Bronte wad Irish born raised and educated,That makes the sistere Irish,,, an Irish colony,Much more should be made of this
@teslagirl007
Thank you for your kind words :)
Emily was the most interesting and creative of all of the them, a genius. Charlotte could not even begin to approach Emily’s depth and style.
@RushTheSilver
Part of Angria have survived but only some poems of the Gondal. There is no absurdity in destroying personal stuff that you don't want the world to see yet. Painters do it all the time. Emily would not try to publish anything considering it too private,if Charlotte hadn't convince her of the merit to the world.
If Jane Eyre is just romance to you then you have missed all the point of the novel. An article in a newspaper is reality too but doesn't make it great literature.
Sounds like Patricia Routledge narrating.
the Bronte's were 100 percent Gaelic--Father Irish, Mother Cornish
Firstly, who cares? Secondly, being from an area doesn't make you 100% anything. You only need look at the thousands of ancestry DNA testing videos on here to understand that.
@JaponLights
Ok! Now I got it! Lol! Thanks for clarifying!
Not one mention of their real nationality and forced exile from Ireland. Even to this day the English cannot bring themselves to own up and tell the truth regarding Ireland!
Yes, it is so sad to know that they all would continue living if they lived in our century. Such a premature waste of talent!
yes
She sounds like patricia rutledge!
No they weren't as fanatical as that! Lol! You may be pleased to learn that Charlotte Bronte gave up her imaginary world when she was 23 because she was tired of "it's burning clime" and wanted to face a "gray dawn" (her words).
They knew the distinction and only used it as fountain of courage and support when the ugly reality was too much to bear.
"You may be pleased to learn that Charlotte Bronte gave up her imaginary world when she was 23"- what is there to be pleased about? She went to her imaginary world again I believe, and bought Elizabeth Hastings and Zamorna back, in 1847, and wrote, what is most famous of her works. All her works that deals with "reality" and "real life" are much less powerful (save Villette, who is a masterpiece, but, I believe, for it's psychological depth, not because of it's realism).
Will she die in this movie
@windstorm1000>>>My thoughts EXACTLY!!!
@RushTheSilver
Now don't think that I don't like Anne at all as a writer.I have read her books.Agnes Grace is didactic but not very interesting The tenant is better but it suffers due to its structure.After the diary part I could not connect easily to the story again.And Helen sometimes irritated me with her piousness (I mean how cliche to go back to her husband) but still she was a brave woman&I understand the value of Anne's advice to the youth but she did not possess the poetry of her sisters
the subtitle is definitely bad. ...
@RushTheSilver
I admire Anne's realism and common sense but that alone does not make her a great writer. There is not a piece of writing of hers that I could read and immediately say "Oh, yes this is definitely Anne Bronte". She has not a distinguished style. While I can laugh with Jane Eyre being the incredibly story that it is but every time it manages to move me and Charlotte's style can be spotted by a mile.
@RushTheSilver
Unfortunately Bella and Edward tend to be rather more important persons in this world than more pithy characters. I wonder what Meyer's readers make out of Wuthering Heights anyway. They are difficult enough to fathom as they are, let alone having in mind totally romantic sugary situations. They are up for some serious disillusions Lol!
@RushTheSilver
That doesn't say much as you don't like Charlotte anyway. Lol! So you don't fool me, but I am as sensitive about Charlotte as you are about Anne. And remember it was you who started it :) I have nothing against Anne but I am tired of defending Charlotte because Anne's works do not enjoy the same recognition.
It makes me wonder if Mr. Bronte' was being tried by God. He lost so much.
that's today's generation--or atleast the media around them.
I must side with Bertha's comment below. While this isn't as criminally awful as most biopics tend to be, the presence of actors makes this "documentary" horribly cheesy. I'm gonna give part 2 a shot, but I might have to stop there. The narrator does a decent enough job at telling us the fascinating story of the Brontë family, and as a result those tacked scenes are completely unnecessary and feel phony at best
However, here, Emily and Anne are shown with such a denial of scientific rigour, and not because the makers of the documentary film didn’t know that you cannot say really something sure about their character, but because TV channels want to broadcast such fanciful productions. I hope there are a lot of people interested in Brontë sisters that are not happy with this proper stupid work that BBC decided to offer to the public (alas again).
What a bad choice of actresses!!!!!
I don’t speak English very well but I want to express my anger against this documentary film. In general, I dislike fictional documentaries films because they show too many things you simply cannot know. I have the feeling they are destined to lazy children you cannot get interested in anything without making a big show.