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Branwell's one and only famous painting is the only known portrait of the three sisters together: see left, now at the National Portrait Gallery.
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After Branwell's death in 1848, aged only 31, Charlotte wrote to her friend William Smith Williams: "I do not weep from a sense of bereavement – there is no prop withdrawn, no consolation torn away, no dear companion lost – but for the wreck of talent, the ruin of promise, the untimely, dreary extinction of what might have been a burning and a shining light."
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Douglas A Martin, in his novel based on the brother Brontë's life, Branwell (2006), writes that "Childhood was Branwell's kingdom to rule over."
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The juxtaposition of Branwell's insult and Emily's rather unpenetrating disquisition is unintentionally hilarious.
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The juxtaposition of Branwell's insult and Emily's rather unpenetrating disquisition is unintentionally hilarious.
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This account of the Brontes' fiction raises the spectre of autobiographical interpretation, only to collapse it along with Branwell's personality: whatever "Branwell" emerges in the act of writing will not be the living Branwell, whose secret vices and rapid mutations alike frustrate the sisters' need for a unified subject.
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Like J. M. Coetzee's The Master of Petersburg, Branwell's priorities lie with the artist's--or, here, failed artist's--subjectivity, not with the thick description that provides so much of the traditional historical novel's pleasure.
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Their portraits distort, as they wrestle with the sides of Branwell's increasingly jagged existence, the collapsing personality 158.
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One of the core elements of the Branwell Bronte mythos, this famous historical "fact" here turns into a brilliant novelistic detour from the unspoken "truth" both sets of scare quotes are well-advised about Branwell's affair with the son.
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The narrator repeatedly calls attention to Charlotte's attempts to micromanage her family's afterlife, whether by editing or burning; after Branwell's writings from Thorp Green go missing, the narrator comments that "Language has been given to us to make our meaning perfectly clear, their sister Charlotte believes, and she doesn't understand why anyone would ever need to wrap their meaning in dishonest doubt" 222.
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