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Penistone Crags, Ponden Kirk and the Fairies of Wuthering Heights Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Simon Young
Penistone Crags in Wuthering Heights (1847) has long and, I argue, correctly been identified with Ponden Kirk on Haworth Moor. This article compares the folklore of Ponden Kirk with the fictional f...
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Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and the Book of Esther: A Pioneering Hermeneutic on Sexism and Xenophobia Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Channah Damatov
Throughout her literary career, Charlotte Brontë sustained a prolonged intertextual relationship with the Book of Esther, which reached its peak in Villette (1853). While most scholarship on the to...
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The Brontë Society Conference Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Rose Dawn Gant
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Rose Dawn Gant
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Novelist of Wildfell Hall: A New Life of Anne Brontë Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Bob Duckett
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Oblivion: The Lost Diaries of Branwell Brontë: A Novel in Three Volumes Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Bob Duckett
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Sarah Powell
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Walking with Anne Brontë, Insights and Reflections: An Anthology Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Peter Cook
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Caldebroc Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Tony Williams
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Call for Articles: Brontë Studies Special Issue: The Brontës and the Wild Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-26
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-26
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Anti-Hierarchical Development in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Amanda Auerbach
This article offers an allegorical interpretation of the ostensibly realist elements of Anne Brontë’s 1847 novel Agnes Grey. Read non-allegorically, Agnes Grey appears to depict the triumph of the ...
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Wuthering Heights Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Patsy Stoneman
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Futuristic Flight: Science beside the Emotive in the Early Writing of Charlotte Brontë Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Julie Elizabeth Young
As a solitary mention within her juvenilia tale ‘Tales of the Islanders’ (1829), Charlotte Brontë’s fictitious reference to air balloon flight suggests a wider social and literary context for its a...
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Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Horace’s Ars Poetica, Lines 179-88: Nelly Dean as Tragic Nuntius Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Russell M. Hillier
A manuscript in the Hugh Walpole Collection of King’s School, Canterbury, attributed to Emily Brontë, consists of translations from Virgil’s Aeneid and Horace’s Ars Poetica. In his groundbreaking a...
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‘I Thought Unaccountably of Fairy Tales’: Jane Eyre, Form, and the Fairy Tale Bildungsroman Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Daniel Dougherty
Frequently Jane Eyre has been compared to various fairy tales, many of which are seemingly woven through the plot and characters of the novel. Largely unremarked upon however is the effect of those...
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Editorial – Reviews Section Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Carolyne Van Der Meer
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Editorial Introduction Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Sarah E. Fanning, Claire O’Callaghan
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Chiltern Publishing Ltd Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Rose Dawn Gant
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Call for Articles: Brontë Studies Special Issue: The Brontës and the Wild Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Amber Pouliot Guest edited by
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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A Brontë Reading List: 2021 Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Sara L. Pearson, Peter Cook, James Ogden
This reading list is an annotated bibliography of scholarly and critical work on the Brontës published in 2021. We have attempted to compile a comprehensive list of resources by consulting the MLA ...
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Literary Art and Moral Instruction in the Novels of Anne Brontë Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Marianne Thormählen
In her own time, Anne Brontë the writer was regarded as inferior to the two older “Bells”, largely because of the perceived slightness of her first novel and the alleged coarseness and brutality of...
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The Anne Brontë Society: Changing the Narrative Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Lauren Bruce
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Brontë Events at the Bradford Literature Festival, June 2023 Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Bob Duckett
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Singing from the Margins: Anne Brontë’s Surprising Poetic Afterlife Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Sara L. Pearson
Anne Brontë was the only hymn-writer in her family, and her hymns have had a successful afterlife in multiple hymnals from 1858 to 1997. Her hymns have been used by a variety of religious denominat...
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The Neo-Victorian Feminist Afterlife of Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) in Sam Baker’s The Woman Who Ran (2016) Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Julia Snyckers, Jeanne Ellis
Anne Brontë’s deliberate exposition in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall of gendered violence as the consequence of the structurally embedded sexism in the Victorian patriarchal socio-legal system is a d...
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Plotting the Governess: The Lessons of Agnes Grey Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Philippa Janu
The journey undertaken by the Victorian governess in the nineteenth-century novel is frequently aligned with the developmental narrative of the Bildungsroman. However, this article explores how the...
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‘Is Childhood Then so All-Divine?’: Representations of Childhood in the Poetry of Anne Brontë Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Ciara Glasscott
Despite the increasing criticism of her traditional critical and cultural reputation as the “third Brontë” in recent years, the underestimation of Anne Brontë’s philosophical and political engageme...
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‘Free from Soil’: The Curation of Anne Brontë Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Jessica Lewis
Famously described by her sister Charlotte as ‘long-suffering, self-denying, reflective, and intelligent, a constitutional reserve and taciturnity placed and kept her in the shade’, Anne Brontë has...
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A Gift of Poison Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Sarah Powell
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Editorial Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Sarah E. Fanning, Claire O’Callaghan
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Editorial – Reviews Section Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Carolyne Van Der Meer
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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The World of The Brontes, 1000-Piece Puzzle Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Carolyne Van Der Meer
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Determining Wuthering Heights: Ideology, Intertexts, Tradition Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Lydia Craig
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Carolyne Van Der Meer
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Poems from the Moor, by Emily Brontë, Alma Books, 2023. Alma Classics series and The Night is Darkening Round Me, by Emily Brontë, Penguin Books (Little Black Classics series, no.63), 2015 Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Bob Duckett
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 4, 2023)
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Chekhov and the Brontës Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Olha Honcharova
Abstract Chekhov’s biographer Donald Rayfield claims, in two different scholarly works, that Chekhov may have been inspired by the Brontë family’s biography when writing his drama Three Sisters (1901). Rayfield’s ideas in turn inspired Blake Morrison and Arlene Hutton in their creative adaptations of Three Sisters, in which the plot and structure of Chekhov’s drama were supplemented with Brontëan historical
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Re-Mapping Jane Eyre: Childhood Trauma, Colonial Fear, and the Narrative of Self-Development Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Meng Li
Abstract Jane Eyre (1847) is a story of human migration and its psychic consequences. The constant displacements of the novel’s heroine, I argue, are a form of internal migration, undertaken by Jane as by many others within the British Empire in the early nineteenth century. Yet, as we shall see, Jane’s similarity to such migrants is complicated by a fear of them—and by her own desire to escape their
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The Man Who Rescues Cats and Dogs: Re-Inventing Masculinity in Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Robin L. Inboden
Abstract As modern readers question the patriarchal dominance of heroes such as Rochester in Jane Eyre (1847) and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1847), a fresh look at Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey (1847) suggests that it may offer very different lessons about masculinity. A series of men and boys in the book interact with animals and lower-class people in ways that control, exploit, dismiss, and even
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A Logos Masquerade: The Unity of Language and Woman’s Body in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-20 George Sadaka
Abstract Although contemporary criticism tends to steer away from popular Lacanian frameworks, I find in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) a range of ideas that, if elucidated by the less popular theory of the masquerade, are useful to understand for our appreciation of women writers’ struggle to bridge the gap between language and the body. I argue that Helen masquerades in language
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The Presentation of the First Catherine in Wuthering Heights Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Graeme Tytler
Abstract A perusal of scholarship on Wuthering Heights (1847) published in the past hundred years or so reveals the extraordinary extent to which the first Catherine has been loved and admired by Brontë scholars. This may, however, seem rather surprising inasmuch as a detailed examination of her presentation makes abundantly clear that Catherine evinces severe moral and mental limitations for much
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‘A Strong Wish for Wings’: The Epistolary Relationship and Intellectual Collaboration between Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Chelsea Wallis
Abstract This article disinters the impact of the correspondence between Mary Taylor and Charlotte Brontë on their respective intellectual lives and writing. Supplementing the epistolary archive, textual evidence from Shirley (1849) and Miss Miles (1890) demonstrates the powerful collaborative dynamic between the two writers, which not only affected their work but also helped them to cultivate a sense
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Canine Agency and Its Mitigation in the Characterization of Dogs in the Novels by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Jane Sunderland
Abstract As is well known to scholars of the life and work of the Brontë novelists, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë had three family dogs, Grasper, Keeper and Flossy. Less well-known is the fact that they included dogs in all seven of their novels. Emily is the best known on both counts, for her great bond with Keeper, and for the importance of the dogs in Wuthering Heights (1847), but also for the
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‘…What Sort of Face It Was to Be, I Did Not Care or Know…’: Jane Eyre and the Self-Creating Portrait Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Rachel A. Ernst
Abstract Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) is a highly visual novel as Jane creates art, describes her artwork, and engages the reader in these acts of descriptive creation. While most critical scholarship has focused on Jane as an artist, the role of artwork beyond the artist, particularly the portrait of Mr. Rochester, has been largely unexamined. The unnamed portrait of Rochester is unique because
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Editorial Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Claire O’Callaghan, Sarah Fanning
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Editorial – Reviews Section Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Carolyne Van Der Meer
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-30
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 1-2, 2023)
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A Brontë Reading List: 2020 Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Sara L. Pearson, Peter Cook, James Ogden
Abstract This reading list is an annotated bibliography of selected scholarly and critical work on the Brontës published in 2020.11 Reading lists 1–14 are located in Brontë Studies 2007, 32 (2); 2008, 33 (3); 2009, 34 (3); 2011, 36 (4); 2012, 37 (3); 2014, 39 (1); 2016, 41 (3); 2017, 42 (4); 2018, 43 (4); 2019, 44 (3); 2019, 44 (4); 2020, 45 (4); 2021, 46 (4); and 2022, 47 (1). Bibliographical details
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Reconsidering Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Sharon Lynne Joffe
Abstract Since Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights in 1847, critics have debated the nature of Heathcliff’s background. Overwhelmingly, they have viewed Heathcliff as the representation of an Irish, Black, or Roma individual. This paper argues that Brontë incorporated nineteenth-century stereotypes of Jews into her character. Brontë would have been familiar with these stereotypes through her reading
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Call for Papers—Brontë Studies Special Issue—Material Culture Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-29
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Brontë Festival of Women’s Writing Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Rose Dawn Gant
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 1-2, 2023)
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The Brontë Society Conference 2023: How Beautiful the Earth is Still Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-23
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Serializing Victorian Fiction Abroad. The Earliest Translation of Jane Eyre in the Iberian Peninsula Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Marta Ortega Sáez
Abstract Soon after Jane Eyre (1847) left Charlotte Brontë’s desk, the novel began an international journey that reached several countries worldwide. In Spain, the first translation of Jane Eyre was serialized in the capital’s daily newspaper El Globo from 9 September 1882 until 7 February 1883. It is a retranslation into Spanish of the 1854 French rendering of Brontë’s novel by Madame Lesbazeilles-Souvestre
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A Fever Dream of Love, Lust and Obsession Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Michael Stewart
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Drinks with Dead Poets: A Season of Poe, Whitman, Byron and the Brontës, Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Carolyne Van Der Meer
Published in Brontë Studies: The Journal of the Brontë Society (Vol. 48, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Honresfield: Imagining One Man’s Collection Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Kathryn Sutherland
Abstract This article is a reproduction of the keynote lecture as delivered at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Brontë Society on 10th September 2022. The talk will appear in expanded form in a book to be published in 2023 from the Friends of the National Libraries.
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Marie Laurencin: The Modern Portraits of the Brontës Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Jian Choe
Abstract This article examines Marie Laurencin’s illustrations for Les Soeurs Brontë: Filles du Vent, René Crevel’s booklet of 1930. In five colour lithographs, she brought up to date Brontë portraiture, re-envisioning the sisters as icons of modern urban femininity. The print set can be considered Laurencin’s pictorial narratives on the sisters. It signifies the artist’s revisionist approach to the
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Books in Wuthering Heights Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-10 Graeme Tytler
Abstract One of the interesting things about Wuthering Heights (1847) is the extent to which books play their part both structurally and thematically. Thus, as well as underlining the marked social differences between the two main households depicted, they help to enlighten us on the mentality of some of the central figures. Notable in this respect are the ways in which the second Catherine (Cathy)
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‘Of Spirits so Lost and Fallen’: The Violent Byronic Hero in Miserrimus and Wuthering Heights Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Lydia Craig
Abstract Key thematic parallels between Frederic Mansel Reynolds’ controversial Miserrimus: A Tale (1833) and Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) indicate an intertextual connection between these novels in their suggestive portrayal of the Byronic hero as demonic entity. Crafted by Reynolds to explore the realised violent potential of Lord Byron’s heroes, Miserrimus risks becoming inhuman and spiritually
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Gimmerton in Wuthering Heights Brontë Studies Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Graeme Tytler
Abstract Of no little significance in Wuthering Heights (1847) is the prominent part played by Gimmerton for various aesthetic purposes both serious and humorous. Thus, for example, whereas the village is referred to here and there for its geographical features and for its usefulness as a centre of commercial, professional and travel facilities, it is also noted for the extent to which its inhabitants