Brontes' Garden Party

Amongst the T-Shirts I would buy if I could afford to buy T-Shirts from overseas just because they amuse me is this one:



I love Kate Beaton's take on history and literature. I particularly love her take on the Brontë sisters.

Everyone reads Charlotte's Jane Eyre, with the brooding, yet decidedly jerky and obnoxious leading man. Everyone reads Emily's Wuthering Heights with the brooding, yet decidedly creepy and disturbing leading man. No one reads Anne's Agnes Grey, where the nice guy gets the nice girl in the end.

Beaton's version of Anne Brontë, as the poor sensible girl who has to put up with her stupid sisters' poor taste in men, is just brilliant.