05 Aug 2021, 2:34 pm
IsabellaLinton wrote:
salad wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Charlotte Brontë had oral sex with Constantin Héger.
Thereby shaping the future of English literature.
I haven't heard that one before, though I'm not a Brontë scholar by any means. I assume there is some small basis for that rather specific lurid theory? Poor saintly Charlotte Brontë.
05 Aug 2021, 3:09 pm
Ah buh-leeeve covid is a hoax-conspiracy 
05 Aug 2021, 3:36 pm
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Charlotte Brontë had oral sex with Constantin Héger.
Ladies of Bronte's time would...faint dead away...if they heard you say that!
05 Aug 2021, 3:43 pm
05 Aug 2021, 3:45 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Charlotte Brontë had oral sex with Constantin Héger.
Ladies of Bronte's time would...faint dead away...if they heard you say that!
Oral was common, to prevent pregnancy. The issue is that he was married and she was caught. Her shame led to the dissolution of her dream to run a girls' school, and was the impetus for her chosen career as a writer. This forced Emily and Anne to publish novels. Charlotte wrote the first women's Bildungsroman, and Anne the first major feminist novel in British literature. These themes changed the social culture for women and paved the way for other English woman writers, most notably George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Oliphant. The rest is history. (Or, herstory).
Actually, I could take that farther and say that the sisters' successful writing led to Branwell's death by opioids / drink, which led to Emily's and Anne's deaths by tuberculosis following his funeral. Which led to Charlotte marrying ABN to stay with her father, and dying in pregnancy at the age of 39.
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05 Aug 2021, 3:57 pm
IsabellaLinton wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Charlotte Brontë had oral sex with Constantin Héger.
Ladies of Bronte's time would...faint dead away...if they heard you say that!
Oral was common, to prevent pregnancy. The issue is that he was married and she was caught. Her shame led to the dissolution of her dream to run a girls' school, and was the impetus for her chosen career as a writer. This forced Emily and Anne to publish novels. Charlotte wrote the first women's Bildungsroman, and Anne the first major feminist novel in British literature. These themes changed the social culture for women and paved the way for other English woman writers, most notably George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Oliphant. The rest is history. (Or, herstory).
So its not just your theory. Its an actual scandalous fact? Interesting.
05 Aug 2021, 4:03 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Charlotte Brontë had oral sex with Constantin Héger.
Ladies of Bronte's time would...faint dead away...if they heard you say that!
Oral was common, to prevent pregnancy. The issue is that he was married and she was caught. Her shame led to the dissolution of her dream to run a girls' school, and was the impetus for her chosen career as a writer. This forced Emily and Anne to publish novels. Charlotte wrote the first women's Bildungsroman, and Anne the first major feminist novel in British literature. These themes changed the social culture for women and paved the way for other English woman writers, most notably George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Oliphant. The rest is history. (Or, herstory).
So its not just your theory. Its an actual scandalous fact? Interesting.
Her love for CH is well documented in torrid, desperate love letters which were torn to shreds by his wife and restitched together. Charlotte's rejection by Héger and subsequent exile from Belgium forms the psychological subtext of all her novels. I've never specifically read the oral sex theory but there are many clues in her novels, which are almost auto-biographical in nature. I see Charlotte as autistic and I can pick up on many metaphors in the passionate scenes of her books. It's plain as day to me.
05 Aug 2021, 4:09 pm
IsabellaLinton wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
IsabellaLinton wrote:
Charlotte Brontë had oral sex with Constantin Héger.
Ladies of Bronte's time would...faint dead away...if they heard you say that!
Oral was common, to prevent pregnancy. The issue is that he was married and she was caught. Her shame led to the dissolution of her dream to run a girls' school, and was the impetus for her chosen career as a writer. This forced Emily and Anne to publish novels. Charlotte wrote the first women's Bildungsroman, and Anne the first major feminist novel in British literature. These themes changed the social culture for women and paved the way for other English woman writers, most notably George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Margaret Oliphant. The rest is history. (Or, herstory).
So its not just your theory. Its an actual scandalous fact? Interesting.
Her love for CH is well documented in torrid, desperate love letters which were torn to shreds by his wife and restitched together. Charlotte's rejection by Héger and subsequent exile from Belgium forms the psychological subtext of all her novels. I've never specifically read the oral sex theory but there are many clues in her novels, which are almost auto-biographical in nature. I see Charlotte as autistic and I can pick up on many metaphors in the passionate scenes of her books. It's plain as day to me.
Gosh...I should ...get some...high culture. And read me some of those passages!
05 Aug 2021, 5:25 pm
naturalplastic wrote:
Gosh...I should ...get some...high culture. And read me some of those passages!
18th and 19th century novels are rife with sex. 18th even more so.
05 Aug 2021, 5:32 pm
https://blogs.bl.uk/english-and-drama/2 ... heger.html
Excerpts of Charlotte's letters, to which he would not respond. 
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