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The Professor, Charlotte Brontë (posthumous, 1857)

Du Maurier, Daphne. The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë. London: Virago, 2006.

"As a bold and gifted child, Branwell Brontë's promise seemed boundless to the three adoring sisters over whom his rule was complete. But as an adult, the precocious flame of genius distorted and burned low. With neither the strength nor the resources to counter rejection, unable to sell his paintings or publish his books, Branwell became a spectre in the Brontë story, in pathetic contrast with the astonishing achievements of his sisters.

Daphne du Maurier concentrates all her biographer's skill on the shadowy figure of Branwell Brontë, and no reader could fail to be intensely moved by Branwell's final retreat into laudanum, alcohol - and death."

"be everything at once"

A Korean woman wrote a comic book


A quote

"I am an extremely toxic person and I should change before my negativity consumes me"




Except, how much is in your power to change?

My negativity has already consumed me

The Inverted Forest by John Dalton

A Blue Fire by James Hillman
A View from the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor

Swing Time by Zadie Smith

Dooley, L. (1920). Psychoanalysis of Charlotte Brontë, as a Type of the Woman of Genius. The American Journal of Psychology, 31(3), 221-272. JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1413538.

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household

The Housewife Assassin's Relationship Survival Guide
by Josie Brown

Psychoanalysis was controversial in the 1900s and 1910s----but, by the 1920s, it had penetrated into at least some of the US public. It was a "cause celebre," seen as being "modern." Lots of its precepts was used (and still is used) in "pop psychology."

Freud formulated his theories, to a considerable extent, by 1900. 1900 was the year he wrote "The Interpretation of Dreams."

The Cat Inside, by William Burroughs.

Avid cat lover - as most authors are - Burroughs wrote a number of remembrances, dream memories, and thoughts on (mostly) cats he's known, or owned, and about the cats role as an animal totem dating back to ancient Egypt. A very expectantly different Burroughs from his better known literature.

"ruins" is a graphic novel about a couple that goes to Mexico

The Norton Critical Edition collecting Chekhov's short stories.

The Aeneid by Virgil.