Literary expert twat resigns from the Bronte Society after hugely capable woman awarded patron role

[Gromit]

Author quits as model made Bronte patron

This is quite ludicrous.
What would Bronte think?!
1. Yay a woman
2. Yay a humanitarian
3. She’s a bit phwoar ain’t she. Girl crush!!!!

My guesses.

 

[Santino]

Fuck off, Gromit

 

[gosub]

He was on Only Connect once, my brain keeps telling me I know him, but I don't

 

[editor]

She's not just a 'woman' or 'model'.

She's a very bright person who graduated with a double first in History of Art from King's College, Cambridge, has been awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters for her "outstanding contribution to humanitarian and environmental causes" by Glasgow Caledonian University in 2013, she founded social media skills-sharing website Impossible.com and is a patron of the Environmental Justice Foundation and has served as an ambassador for international development organisation Global Angels. Oh, and inbetween that she has worked as an actress and model for ten years.

All of which makes her a wonderful person for the job.

 

[editor]

I'm going to give this thread a more meaningful title.

 

[editor]

There. That's better.

 

[editor]

Here's the twat in question frothing away on his blog

If you don’t know Lily Cole, and you’d be in the majority, she is described as ‘a model and social entrepreneur’ (whatever that is). I am unfortunate enough to have encountered Lily before as a few years ago I had a front row seat of a new play about Helen of Troy at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre. Lily had the title role, and the play was so bad that it is the only one I have ever walked out of at the interval. If the acting was bad, and believe me it was, the dialogue was even worse – one line in particular was of such clunking ineptitude that it has remained with me forever: ‘women smell my power, men smell like sex’. It was when Lily delivered this line with all the passion of the announcer at Piccadilly station that I began longing for the train home.

Lily’s acting career has since encompassed Marks & Spencer adverts, a role in the St. Trinian’s movie, and a risible star turn in a documentary about Elizabeth I this year. How can anyone have thought that this made her a suitable choice to be in charge of Emily Brontë’s celebration year? I have nothing against Lily herself, other than her terrible acting, but against the people who selected her.

Emily Brontë, Lily Cole and the Shame of The Brontë Society

 

[Gromit]

She's not just a 'woman' or 'model'.

She's a very bright person who graduated with a double first in History of Art from King's College, Cambridge, has been awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters for her "outstanding contribution to humanitarian and environmental causes" by Glasgow Caledonian University in 2013, she founded social media skills-sharing website Impossible.com and is a patron of the Environmental Justice Foundation and has served as an ambassador for international development organisation Global Angels. Oh, and inbetween that she has worked as an actress and model for ten years.

All of which makes her a wonderful person for the job.

She’s one of those sickening people who are sickening good at everything they do and you’d like to hate them for it but they are really nice irl too. Sickening really.

I met her at a party thrown via Impossible. My nice irl is based on the 20 seconds we chatted so not irrefutable if someone appears to say she tortures hamsters or something.

 

[Gromit]

Here's the twat in question frothing away on his blog


Emily Brontë, Lily Cole and the Shame of The Brontë Society

He skips past The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus* in which she was aces.

* A film nominated for two oscars and two Baftas.

 

[Mr Smin]

I'll just leave this here Lily Cole: You'd hate me more if Impossible.com were a success

 

[SpookyFrank]

Here he is folks. Looks like a cunt.

 

[editor]

This is barfworthy stuff from impossible.com

We are a group of people who have come together to help solve meaningful problems and guide global change. Cancer diagnosis. Fake news. Bots in the work place. Creative self. Opaque supply chains. Fair insurance. Emotional connectivity. Building communities. Refugees' reality. Remittances. Global world heritage. Waste in fashion. Blockchain and ownership.

We have an amazing time doing it.

Come hug us

Still none of that has anything to do with her suitability for the job, which seems amply qualified for. What qualifications did the moany bloke have?

 

[existentialist]

Here he is folks. Looks like a cunt.

Although I admit that I am struggling with the fact that I'd already decided he was a cunt before you posted this photo, what is it about so many cunts that their photos LOOK like they're cunts?

I mean, I know quite a few people who aren't cunts who have that receding hairline, and the slightly watery grin is not the domain of cunts alone. I'm not a cunt, and I rock the open-necked shirt and jacket combo quite regularly, But, somehow, put them altogether, and add a pinch of cunt-dust, and it's right there - a cunt staring out of the photo at you. Same goes for that cunt Toby whatshisname, and the cunt Gove.

Or is it 100% confirmation bias? I know he's a cunt, so when I see a photo of him, I automatically associate all the characteristics evident in that photo with cuntitude?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Although I admit that I am struggling with the fact that I'd already decided he was a cunt before you posted this photo, what is it about so many cunts that their photos LOOK like they're cunts?

I mean, I know quite a few people who aren't cunts who have that receding hairline, and the slightly watery grin is not the domain of cunts alone. I'm not a cunt, and I rock the open-necked shirt and jacket combo quite regularly, But, somehow, put them altogether, and add a pinch of cunt-dust, and it's right there - a cunt staring out of the photo at you. Same goes for that cunt Toby whatshisname, and the cunt Gove.

Or is it 100% confirmation bias? I know he's a cunt, so when I see a photo of him, I automatically associate all the characteristics evident in that photo with cuntitude?

I'm usually right about these things. Like when I told everyone that Paul Hollywood bloke looked dodgy as fuck, and then he turned out to be a nazi.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

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Particular attention is paid to the first-hand study of works of art – lectures and classes are regularly held in museums, taught by curatorial staff and other visiting experts – and you receive exceptional attention and support throughout your degree.

Assessment varies according to the paper being studied but typically includes written examinations and visual analysis tests (comparing and contrasting works of art), and a dissertation in Year 3.

Year 1 (Part I)
Part I provides you with a broad introduction to the history of art, and to the making and meaning of art objects, with special emphasis on the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum. These run from the art of Ancient Egypt to modern times and include major examples of medieval, Renaissance and post-Renaissance art as well as non-Western items.

During the year you take five compulsory papers and complete a short dissertation:

• The Objects of Art History – a survey of art and architecture that introduces the history of art from antiquity to the modern era
• The Making of Art – two papers covering issues of manufacture, technique and style in painting and sculpture in the context of their historical development
• The Meaning of Architecture and Art – two papers concerned with how works of architecture and art are interpreted in light of cultural traditions
• the short dissertation is 5,000 words on a work of art or architecture in or around Cambridge

Year 2 (Part IIA)
Part II deepens your knowledge and understanding by focusing in greater depth on specific issues.

In Part IIA, you take one compulsory paper along with two pairs of papers on Special Subjects:

• Approaches to the History of Art – the compulsory paper covers the history of the discipline and its critical methodologies from antiquity to the present day
• Special Subjects – chosen from a range of around 10, each pair deals with a particular person, subject or period. These currently include French medieval art and architecture, English Renaissance art and architecture, art and society in medieval Italy. British art and architecture, Russian painting, Surrealism, art in Paris 1750-1800, and post-1960 visual art

Year 3 (Part IIB)
In Part IIB, you take one compulsory paper, two further pairs of Special Subjects papers and submit a dissertation:

• The Display of Art – the compulsory paper explores the ways in which art is collected, displayed and experienced in society
• Special Subjects – the options available are as those in Part IIA, but you take two subjects that you haven’t studied before
• the dissertation is 7,000-9,000 words on a topic of your choice, as agreed with your Director of Studies

For further information about studying History of Art at the University of Cambridge see the Department of History of Art website.

 

[editor]

Course outline
Teaching is provided through lectures, seminars and supervisions. First-year students typically have up to six hours of departmental teaching each week, as well as a supervision linked to your weekly reading and essays.

Particular attention is paid to the first-hand study of works of art – lectures and classes are regularly held in museums, taught by curatorial staff and other visiting experts – and you receive exceptional attention and support throughout your degree.

Assessment varies according to the paper being studied but typically includes written examinations and visual analysis tests (comparing and contrasting works of art), and a dissertation in Year 3.

Year 1 (Part I)
Part I provides you with a broad introduction to the history of art, and to the making and meaning of art objects, with special emphasis on the collections of the Fitzwilliam Museum. These run from the art of Ancient Egypt to modern times and include major examples of medieval, Renaissance and post-Renaissance art as well as non-Western items.

During the year you take five compulsory papers and complete a short dissertation:

• The Objects of Art History – a survey of art and architecture that introduces the history of art from antiquity to the modern era
• The Making of Art – two papers covering issues of manufacture, technique and style in painting and sculpture in the context of their historical development
• The Meaning of Architecture and Art – two papers concerned with how works of architecture and art are interpreted in light of cultural traditions
• the short dissertation is 5,000 words on a work of art or architecture in or around Cambridge

Year 2 (Part IIA)
Part II deepens your knowledge and understanding by focusing in greater depth on specific issues.

In Part IIA, you take one compulsory paper along with two pairs of papers on Special Subjects:

• Approaches to the History of Art – the compulsory paper covers the history of the discipline and its critical methodologies from antiquity to the present day
• Special Subjects – chosen from a range of around 10, each pair deals with a particular person, subject or period. These currently include French medieval art and architecture, English Renaissance art and architecture, art and society in medieval Italy. British art and architecture, Russian painting, Surrealism, art in Paris 1750-1800, and post-1960 visual art

Year 3 (Part IIB)
In Part IIB, you take one compulsory paper, two further pairs of Special Subjects papers and submit a dissertation:

• The Display of Art – the compulsory paper explores the ways in which art is collected, displayed and experienced in society
• Special Subjects – the options available are as those in Part IIA, but you take two subjects that you haven’t studied before
• the dissertation is 7,000-9,000 words on a topic of your choice, as agreed with your Director of Studies

For further information about studying History of Art at the University of Cambridge see the Department of History of Art website.

Why have you posted this?

 

[bcuster]

I'm a huge fan of the Bronte sisters. Huge. I came across a possible explanation for their early demises:

Apparently the Brontës All Died Young Because They Spent Their Lives Drinking Graveyard Water

Possibly water from the local privies, too.

getpocket.com

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm a huge fan of the Bronte sisters. Huge. I came across a possible explanation for their early demises:

Apparently the Brontës All Died Young Because They Spent Their Lives Drinking Graveyard Water

Possibly water from the local privies, too.

getpocket.com

They all died with tuberculosis, but drinking graveyard water would not have helped. I think typhoid also hastened Anne or Emily’s death, which would have been from the drinking water.

Strange thread to be posting very old news

 

[bcuster]

They all died with tuberculosis, but drinking graveyard water would not have helped. I think typhoid also hastened Anne or Emily’s death, which would have been from the drinking water.

Strange thread to be posting very old news

It's new news to me. I'd've subscribed to the theory that that they'd all died of broken hearts...

 

[Orang Utan]

It's new news to me. I'd've subscribed to the theory that that they'd all died of broken hearts...

You said you were a huge fan

 

[xenon]

no one starts new threads anymore. they just bang it in some old semi related one. I can understand if they’ve come from other forums where mods are a bit officious about that sort of thing. But yeah more threads IMO.

 

[Orang Utan]

no one starts new threads anymore. they just bang it in some old semi related one. I can understand if they’ve come from other forums where mods are a bit officious about that sort of thing. But yeah more threads IMO.

pogofish terrorised people about this and U75 now has generational trauma which means they try to avoid unintentionally invoking the Pogodemon

 

[story]

But that makes pogofish sad

 

[xenon]

I think pogofish was only joking anyway. this is my retrospective analysis. He doesn’t do it anymore. Although there would be a certain irony if he did. actually I’m going to try and start more threads into thousand and 23. Won’t necessarily be any good but you know.

 

[bcuster]

I think pogofish was only joking anyway. this is my retrospective analysis. He doesn’t do it anymore. Although there would be a certain irony if he did. actually I’m going to try and start more threads into thousand and 23. Won’t necessarily be any good but you know.

I'd post lots in a "Bronte" thread... encouragement enough?

 

[friedaweed]

I visited the parsonage last year with the wife for her birthday. She's a huge fan and had never been.. A visit that was spoilt in the main by the unplanned presence of her mother who, as always made it all about her, so much that I spent most of the time sat outside with her old man as he couldn't get up the steps at the front of the house.

We sat outside the shop looking at the allotments. and then went for a wander His dementia had progressed quite significantly by this point but me and him had a proper chuckle when his wife got the hump that we wondered off into the graveyard and started doing our own thing as a result of her overbearing ability to make everything all about her.

I really enjoyed that day with my FIL. I doubt he remembers it now and I need to go back because my wife spent the best part of her surprise weekend wanting to throttle an elderly relative.

Anyway, reading that article and knowing Howarth's layout it's all quite plausible really that the layout of the town in those times would have contributed to a lot of ill health of the inhabitants.

I'd always said to Shirl that I'd meet her there for a brew one day. It was just over the hill for her.

To absent friends x

 

[xenon]

I'd post lots in a "Bronte" thread... encouragement enough?

Don’t ask me man, I only read Wuthering Heights for A-level English. I just think more threads, there should be more discrete threads.

 

[bcuster]

I’ve read 3 Bronte novels since then from the other two sisters and loved them all…

 

[pogofish]

I think pogofish was only joking anyway. this is my retrospective analysis. He doesn’t do it anymore. Although there would be a certain irony if he did. actually I’m going to try and start more threads into thousand and 23. Won’t necessarily be any good but you know.

Half joking anyway.

 

[bcuster]

A film!

The Making of Emily Brontë

A new film imagines the events that inspired the notoriously private author to write "Wuthering Heights"

www.smithsonianmag.com