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I Cried My Eyes Out at Charlotte Brontë's Home

I’ve always loved Jane Eyre. I thought she was wonderful, kind, independent, smart, talented, and brave. I read the book and watched the BBC movie and thought about what it would be like to live on those moors, with all the open space and the huge, dimly lit stone house. When I went to Northern England, I saw the same things Charlotte Brontë did. I saw the same streets, the same trees, the same moss and I, Aliana Schaeffer, stood in that woman’s very home, where she walked and lived and ate and laughed and I stood in the same room where she sat down and wrote, by hand, (because there weren’t lovely things like laptops yet), my most favourite book in the world. How could I not cry? I may not love camping, but I love nature. I love finding caterpillars and worms and I love waterfalls more than most things. I love being in places I feel fairies would be and I collect rocks, not so much because I like or want to, but because I feel an irresistible urge to have them an...

Brontë Parsonage and Home

My most favourite book is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. She grew up in this home with her father, two sisters, and brother. Her father was from Ireland, and shortly after their family moved to this home, their mother passed away. Charlotte had two older sisters, but they passed away when they were very young, age 10 and 11. It is interesting that it is a modest home and the Brontë sisters were such good writers. They would walk around the dining room table and discuss their writing and characters. The moors surrounding the house inspired Emily and she included them in her classic novel Wuthering Heights. The Brontë sisters worked as governesses for some time (like Jane!) because that was the only accepted thing a lady could do at that time when she was poor. Their brother tried a series of different things but ended up passing away at age 31 from tuberculosis. Charlotte lived longer than her sisters, who died around age 30 from illness. The si...

Queen Victoria

I liked learning about Queen Victoria. She liked to paint and draw and kept a diary, things I could relate to. Something I found interesting was that there were 7 attempts made on her life, and apparently she was really courageous about it. She was also made queen when she was really young- only 18 years old. She married her husband Albert, who she loved a lot, and who become someone she heavily relied on. He died when he was 42 and she wore black for the rest of her reign , which seems a little dramatic, but I respect it. She's a symbol for the British Empire, which greatly expanded during her reign. The number of people in Britain doubled, and to accommodate all the new people, there will new buildings and factories being built, which changed the British landscape. She was also the first reigning monarch to use trains, and the railway changed from being just for transporting things to transporting people as well. She also moved direct political power away from the sovereign....