{"id":218104,"date":"2014-04-08T09:10:53","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/08\/euclase2-twinkleofafadingstar-so-charlotte\/"},"modified":"2014-04-08T09:10:53","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T09:10:53","slug":"euclase2-twinkleofafadingstar-so-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/08\/euclase2-twinkleofafadingstar-so-charlotte\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/euclase2.tumblr.com\/post\/81946852361\/twinkleofafadingstar-so-charlotte-bronte\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">euclase2<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/twinkleofafadingstar.tumblr.com\/post\/77406131890\" target=\"_blank\">twinkleofafadingstar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>so Charlotte Bronte read\u00a0<em>Emma<\/em> by Jane Austen and was really interested in this minor character named Jane Fairfax who was poor and would have been a governess had she not married well and then Bronte wrote her own novel exploring the plight of the poor governess who married this guy named Edward Fairfax Rochester in a novel called\u00a0<em>Jane Eyre<\/em> and my point is don\u2019t let anyone tell you shit about fanfiction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What\u2019s even better is that Jean Rhys was so intrigued by the story of the mad woman in the attic from <em>Jane Eyre<\/em>\u2014Bertha\u2014that she wrote <em>Wide Sargasso Sea<\/em>, which gives Bertha\u2019s backstory, how she grew up in Jamaica, the mental illness that plagued her family, the shitty postcolonial patriarchy of the time, and her arranged marriage to Rochester, who had her shipped off to England. And that fanfiction is considered one of the best modern novels of all time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>euclase2: twinkleofafadingstar: so Charlotte Bronte read\u00a0Emma by Jane Austen and was really interested in this minor character named Jane Fairfax who was poor and would have been a governess had she not married well and then Bronte wrote her own novel exploring the plight of the poor governess who married this guy named Edward Fairfax &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/08\/euclase2-twinkleofafadingstar-so-charlotte\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[247,22609,4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}