To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters Page #3

Synopsis: In 1845 at Haworth on the Yorkshire moors sisters Anne, Charlotte and Emily Bronte and their father, a retired parson with failing eye-sight, are continually troubled by their drunken, irresponsible brother Branwell, who wastes every opportunity given him to become an artist. Charlotte fears for her own sight whilst Emily seeks refuge in writing about the imaginary land of Gondor but all three are fearful for their future should their menfolk die. Charlotte is impressed by Emily's work and encourages her to write a novel, inspired by a story told her by a former employer, which will become 'Wuthering Heights' All three sisters write novels, loosely based on their own experiences using androgynous masculine pen-names which are ultimately accepted for publication. Their success allows them to identify their true gender and to save the roof over their heads but Branwell's self-indulgence leads to his early death and both Emily and Anne succumb to sickness, dying young. An end title inform
Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Sally Wainwright
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.5
TV-PG
Year:
2016
120 min
486 Views


And you didn't tell me

how big it was, did ya?

And I didn't know who to turn to,

with no money. So, I came home!

Well, er... Witnesses.

Surely someone must have seen

what happened.

There were no witnesses.

Everyone just turned around

and went about their business!

So all 30 shillings?

Gone? YES!

Oh!

Then, when Aunt Branwell went to bed

and Papa went back to his study,

I said to him, "You're lying."

And he admitted it.

He didn't even make it to London,

never mind any business

at any Royal Academy.

He said he was about to get on

the high-flier, in Bradford,

with his paintings and his sketches.

But then, when he was faced with the

reality of setting off for London,

he realised that they just...

weren't that good.

They might look well enough at home,

but next to a Lawrence,

or a Gainsborough...

So he fortified himself, he said,

to get courage to get on the next

coach, which was his intention.

But he didn't.

He spent four days in Bradford.

Drunk and miserable

and dreaming up some trash

that he thought everyone at home

would be blown enough to believe.

He spent 30 shillings on drink,

in four days?

I could've cheerfully murdered him,

to start with. And then...

Actually I felt sorry for him.

They always expected so much of him.

More, probably,

than he was ever capable of.

And I just thought,

"Thank God I'm not you."

It's disappointing, I know.

And I'm angry with him too.

He humiliated me at Thorp Green,

and he knew what he was doing.

But we shouldn't give up on him,

should we?

No, we shouldn't give up on him. But

we should see him for what he is.

Not what he isn't.

It's not fair on him.

I sometimes think

Charlotte despises him. Mm, well...

Charlotte has her own demons.

What demons?

Look, you know how low she's been?

For months.

To the point of making herself ill,

and convincing herself

she's going blind.

Yes? Well, you know

when we were in Brussels?

Monsieur Heger? Yes.

Well...she was very...

taken...with him.

Not when I was there.

This was after Aunt Branwell died,

when I stayed at home.

She became...

..obsessed with him.

He was married.

That's why she left. At finish.

"My dear Leyland,

"I returned yesterday

"from a week's journey

to Liverpool and North Wales,

"but I found, during my absence,

"that wherever I went,

a certain woman, robed in black

"and calling herself Misery,

walked by my side,

"and leant on my arm

as affectionately

"as if she were my legal wife.

"Like some other husbands,

I could have spared her presence."

For the food

we are about to receive,

may the Lord make us

truly thankful. Amen.

Is she feeding those dogs again? No.

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Sally Wainwright

Sally A Wainwright (born 1963) is an English television writer and playwright. She won the 2009 Writer of the Year Award given by the RTS in 2009 for Unforgiven. She is known for work on the BBC dramas Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax. Both have won BAFTA's award for best series, and Wainwright was voted best writer. more…

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