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Rest in Peace, Charlotte

03.31.2012 - Be The First To Comment

157 years ago today, Charlotte Brontë died in an agony of nausea thought to be caused by hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness. During the course of her short life (she died at 39), she was a teacher, governess, and author. She was a not-so-patient daughter, a discontented lover, and

The Littlest Heroines

09.16.2010 - 5 Comments Click here to read/write comments

Little Laura Jernegan, a girl who traveled the world on a whale ship during the 1860s, made quite the splash on the Internet yesterday (thanks, Wendy McClure, for passing on the link). Her journal, written when she was six years old, records her thoughts on various animals, the smells of

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