The Brontës and a revolutionary artist

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🗓️ 8 October 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Charlotte Brontë’s latest biographer, Claire Harman, visits the home of three remarkable literary sisters. Meanwhile, broadcaster and historian Loyd Grossman introduces the Georgian painter Benjamin West who shook the art world with his depiction of General Wolfe’s death Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.3	And he described him as Britain's best painter in Europe's worst.
0:51.3	That was Lloyd Grossman discussing the Georgian artist Benjamin West.
0:55.8	The only sort of light at the end of the teaching tunnel for all of them was the idea
1:00.2	that they could, while they were teaching, be writing and perhaps one day support themselves
1:07.2	through writing, which they did manage to do. And that was Claire Harmon, talking about the Brontes.
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