Eric Ruijssenaars
Autore di The Pensionnat revisited more light shed on the Brussels of the Brontes
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This is a follow-up volume to Ruijssenaars' earlier Charlotte Brontë's Promised Land, about the Pensionnat Heger where Charlotte and Emily Bronte lived briefly in the 1940s. Most of it is Ruijssenaars' investigation of the demolition of the Pensionnat and the whole Rue Isabelle district of Brussels in 1910, with a couple of codas on the cultural life of Brussels when the Brontës where there (including the identification of the paintings mentioned in Villette) and on the best surviving photograph of the Pensionnat, suggesting that it is much older than had been thought. I hadn't previously made the connection, but I have actually walked on the upper end of the Rue Isabelle which is now preserved in the Coudenberg museum. I hope this gets bound with Charlotte Brontë's Promised Land for future editions; it's not quite coherent enough to work as a standalone volume, but interesting for Brontë completists.… (altro)