To walk invisible

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Really looked forward to this but am finding it all a bit. Meh!

Anyone else watching
It might just be me
I'm a bit tired tonight

This is a wonderful and interesting thread! My book group is doing The Professor this week so the TV drama was very timely.

It is a strange book with some passages of real nastiness. But also very down to earth, no mad wives, no mysteries, just a young man trying to get by in life. A rather priggish and unlikable man in my opinion!

absolutely, it's absorbing, isn't it? I thought it was going to be sort of fan girl nonsense, but it was much more substantial than that! I'm not entirely convinced by the photo, but I know a lot more about 1840s straw hats than I did...

The Professor is very odd indeed (and yes, what a priggish 'hero'). You can see why it didn't get accepted for publication when Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall did. It just doesn't really come off. If you haven't read it, Vilette revisits the same Brussels school teacher-pupil relationship, but is utterly brilliant, and my favourite of all Bronte novels.

Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey were accepted for publishing. It did cost the Brontes though.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was published, very successfully after Agnes Grey. Charlotte choose not to republish after Anne's death. Anne alone stands buried apart from her family. She was interred in Scarborough, all the rest in Haworth.

I loved it. Cried at the end. Impossible to imagine how hard their lives were and they were so determined. Then they all died so young with 3 going in the space of a year.

I went to Haworth last year and a car salesman told us about the set and just got to see it before it was dismantled. Not close up but I was thrilled.

Tenant is one of my favourite favourite books. It is genius. The slow red flags at the start...how could Anne have known so much about relationships?

I wonder why they left Charlotte's death off. She died of morning sickness apparently, judging by her letters at the time. So tragic.

I absolutely loved it, watched on iplayer this afternoon.

My paternal grandparents lived in Haworth and I spent a lot of time there as a child. I haven't been back there for years though, might go to the museum in the spring after seeing the clips at the end of the film!

wellerr, TofWH has been my favourite book since I was a teenager, read most years since.

I enjoyed to walk invisible but i am enjoying this thread nearly as much! i like jane Eyre and i love wuthering heights, but for anyone who hasnt read it yet the tenant of wildfell hall is nothing short of amazing. I tried the professor and villete but i found them hard work and must confess i gave up on both after a few chapters. I prefer Austen's novels generally as i really enjoy her sense of humour. The Bronte's were brilliant, but a bit joyless imo.

Anne Bronte is by far the most talented of them all imo Dead. Austen, her sisters, the lot of them .

I loved the portrayal of the sisters in To Walk Invisible, Anne quietly writing, level headed and calm (esp. because she has long been my favourite). Charlotte stealing the limelight and Emily somewhat reluctant.

IM very humble O, ToWH is the most powerful of all and only not as revered as all the other writers works because of the subject matter. Women didn't make a stand like Helen Graham did.

Perhaps we'll have to have a Walk Invincible meet up on 't moor this summer and re enact it all rather fancy being the old man parson myself now who will play the sisters;?

Elendon for Emily I reckon;?

I also enjoyed Invisible - I re-watched the scene in the publishers' several times and it brought a little tear to the eye. I've sometimes wondered whether Emily would these days be diagnosed with some form of ASD or communication disorder, as by the accounts I've read she was almost unable to talk to anyone outside the family and became physically ill if required to live amongst strangers away from her home (hence only one short stint governessing, unlike her sisters). Or have I just read bonkers biographies? I've ordered Claire Harman's one just in case! I also agree about the Tenant of Wildfell Hall which is far and away my favourite of all their books.

I've always thought that the difference in the trajectories of the three surviving sisters and Branwell was that they were able to discipline their Gondal-ing habit and thereby turn it into something productive but he wasn't. Possibly because the girls would have lived under a much more disciplined regime in general?

will someone, for the love of God, tell TV producers that writers do not sit down to a new novel by writing out the title and their name and underlining it!??

Seconded. It's so irritating.