Read the Printed Word!
submit to reddit

15th February 2012

Photo with 54 notes

Charlotte Brontë(1816-55)To Professor Constantin Héger, 18 November 1844While studying languages in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë became infatuated with her Belgian professor. On her return to England, she wrote to him, revealing the extent of her feelings, and confessing: “Truly I find it difficult to be cheerful solong as I think I shall never see you more.” Her letters were torn up in shock by the professor who was married with children. Curiously, it is thanks to his wife, who retrieved them from the waste-paper basket, that we are privy to their contents today

Charlotte Brontë
(1816-55)
To Professor Constantin Héger, 18 November 1844
While studying languages in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë became infatuated with her Belgian professor. On her return to England, she wrote to him, revealing the extent of her feelings, and confessing: “Truly I find it difficult to be cheerful solong as I think I shall never see you more.” Her letters were torn up in shock by the professor who was married with children. Curiously, it is thanks to his wife, who retrieved them from the waste-paper basket, that we are privy to their contents today

Tagged: historyvictorian19th centurylitlettersbrontelove

Source: Guardian

  1. thepierglass reblogged this from twesg
  2. abeyaargulabjamun reblogged this from hostilities
  3. hostilities reblogged this from cartulary
  4. cartulary reblogged this from twesg
  5. twesg reblogged this from thevictorianist
  6. theartsygirl reblogged this from bookuse and added:
    This relationship inspired her book The Professor.
  7. slideandtumble reblogged this from ispydesign
  8. rawveganani reblogged this from bookuse
  9. psychotweed reblogged this from an-itinerant-poet
  10. an-itinerant-poet reblogged this from closetpoesie
  11. thysa-arwin reblogged this from thevictorianist
  12. will-be-lost reblogged this from thevictorianist
  13. piluyjosema reblogged this from thevictorianist
  14. pulph reblogged this from thevictorianist
  15. hodgespodges reblogged this from thevictorianist
  16. beijingmargarita reblogged this from closetpoesie
  17. degrandpre reblogged this from thevictorianist
  18. alligatorgangster reblogged this from thevictorianist
  19. This was featured in #History
  20. closetpoesie reblogged this from thevictorianist
  21. thevictorianist posted this