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  • Fwd: The minimalist output of Acton Bell aka Anne Bronte

    Posted by Patricia Brody on September 14, 2020 at 4:25 pm

    Still thinking RO Womantics

    ———- Forwarded message ———
    From: Patricia Brody <patriciannb13@gmail.com>
    Date: Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:07 PM
    Subject: The minimalist output of Acton Bell aka Anne Bronte
    To: Mary Ann Caws <maryanncaws@gmail.com>, Pat Laurence <
    pat.laurence@gmail.com>, Maureen Fadem <Maureen.Fadem@kbcc.cuny.edu>, Chris
    Campanioni <chriscampanioni@gmail.com>, Jojo Karlin <jojo.karlin@gmail.com>,
    Madeleine Barnes <madeleineabarnes@gmail.com>

    Below please find some links to what’s on at the Morgan
    two good ones about to close and there’s Beethoven too!

    would we call her a modernist? Possibly not, by
    voice or tone, but 2 novels and 25 poems published before death
    at 29.
    The Morgan is open again.
    Around t he corner from the GC
    and more exhibits to please the post modern eye if that’s yo’
    thing!

    https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/current
    https://www.themorgan.org/visit

    https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/betye-saar
    Betye Saar?
    No Soft Nonsense: Anne Brontë at 200
    February 25 through October 4, 2020

    Why should a woman author be compelled to keep things nice? English poet
    and novelist Anne Brontë (1820–1849) adopted an ungendered pen name because
    she wished to be heard. Still, critics couldn’t help speculating about the
    identity of the pseudonymous “Acton Bell.” After she published a novel
    featuring graphic depictions of addiction and domestic abuse, one reviewer
    accused the author of harboring “a morbid love for the coarse, not to say
    the brutal.” She issued a written retort: “If I can gain the public ear at
    all, I would rather whisper a few wholesome truths therein than much soft
    nonsense.” Moreover, she added, “I am satisfied that if a book is a good
    one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.”

    Brontë published two novels and twenty-five poems before her death at age
    twenty-nine. This small installation, on view in the Rotunda of J. Pierpont
    Morgan’s Library and drawn entirely from the Morgan’s own holdings, marks
    the two-hundredth anniversary of Brontë’s birth and celebrates her bold,
    enduring literary voice. It includes her annotated Bible, early editions of
    all her published work, manuscripts of her poetry, and two letters from her
    sister Charlotte about Anne’s final illness.

    A web presentation
    (https://www.themorgan.org/collection/anne-bronte-manuscripts) features di

    —
    Patricia Brody
    Check out my book, *Dangerous To Know (poems in the voices of forgotten
    women)* from SalmonPoetry
    new writing, and other poetry-related events.

    brodypoet@gmail.com.

    Exercise your Right to Write: *SEEKING YOUR VOICE: Women Writing Poetry &
    Memoir*

    NB: You can join now!

    Register at C. Bochar, Business Manager: 212-678-2416
    http://our.barnard.edu/s/1133/16/wide.aspx?sid=1133&gid=1&pgid=3907&cid=13577&ecid=13577&crid=0&calpgid=2564&calcid=7072

    Visit my Blog at:
    http://brodypoet.wordpress.com

    —
    Patricia Brody
    Check out my book, *Dangerous To Know (poems in the voices of forgotten
    women)* from SalmonPoetry
    new writing, and other poetry-related events.

    brodypoet@gmail.com.

    Exercise your Right to Write: *SEEKING YOUR VOICE: Women Writing Poetry &
    Memoir*

    NB: You can join now! Register at C. Bochar, Business Manager:
    212-678-2416
    http://our.barnard.edu/s/1133/16/wide.aspx?sid=1133&gid=1&pgid=3907&cid=13577&ecid=13577&crid=0&calpgid=2564&calcid=7072

    Visit my Blog at:
    http://brodypoet.wordpress.com

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