When Silence Isn’t Silence

• Posted on 2nd September 2010
• in Blog
• by Erin Blakemore

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Sometimes it’s hard to remember what a luxury it is to write a book (or, even better, to have written one). After all, the women who came before me were full-time moms, pioneers, dutiful daughters and poor ones, women with things to do. Still others had to fight to prove that their works were written by women at all.

In her poem “Evening Solace,” Charlotte Brontë wrote the following lines:

The human heart has hidden treasures

In secret kept, in silence sealed;

The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures,

Whose charms were broken if revealed.

I’m not so much willfully silent these days as bogged down in preparations and anticipation.  In less than two months, The Heroine’s Bookshelf will hit the shelves.  In the meantime, prepare yourself for many exciting announcements…and more silence-breaking from my end.

Tags: charlotte bronte, jane eyre, poetry, silence, the heroine's bookshelf