![]() What Jane wanted Mal, and all of the other victims of domestic abuse, to know is that it is possible to break the cycle. Jane had called her parents asking for help and they had basically told her she had made her bed… and she had to lie in it.Įven though the song is entitled ‘SO SAD’ it really is a song of hope. It was the next part of the story that broke Mal’s heart. Jane told Mal that if she had packed a bag, and it had been found, she didn’t believe that her partner would ever have allowed her or her little girl to leave that house. In Mal’s song the woman packs her bags and waits until the morning. But she felt the opening lines were wrong. It was one woman, who Mal refers to as Jane Doe, who really made Mal think.įor years she had lived in constant fear of a violent attack, usually verbal, occasionally physical. Women, and men, wanted to share their stories. ![]() ‘You Are Not Alone’ was soon picked up for use in a National campaign to promote The LIFE FEAR FREE helpline. One of the songs of Mal’s recently released album ‘Butterfly’, told the story of one such woman. The successful campaign to keep it intact, he said, “is a testament to what can be achieved by public institutions and private collectors.It was back in May 2020 as lockdown started to bite that the number of domestic abuse cases started to soar. In the announcement, Gabriel Heaton, the Sotheby’s specialist who organized the planned sale, called it “a collection like no other that has come to market in recent decades.” Most that survive are at the Morgan Library in New York City. Only three early Austen letters are preserved in any British national collection, according to the group. The collection also includes what the consortium called “two hugely significant letters” by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, including one from 1796 (the earliest surviving letter in her handwriting) in which Austen, then 20, discusses a love affair. Other highlights of the collection, which was being sold by unidentified relatives of the Law brothers, include the complete working manuscript of Scott’s 1817 novel “Rob Roy” and the manuscript compendium known as Burns’s “First Commonplace Book” from 1783-1785, which contains some of his earliest literary writings. It had carried an auction estimate at Sotheby’s of $1.1 million to $1.7 million - a near record for a modern English literature manuscript, according to Sotheby’s, had it been reached. One of the most prized parts of the collection was a group of manuscripts by the Brontës, including an 1844 handwritten manuscript of Emily Brontë’s poems with pencil edits by Charlotte. After their deaths, the collection passed to a nephew, who granted access to select scholars, and had facsimiles made of some items. ![]() Half of it came from the philanthropist Leonard Blavatnik, in what the release called the largest ever gift to the United Kingdom by an individual for a literary treasure.Īlfred and William Law, two self-made mill owners who grew up less than 20 miles from the Brontë home in Haworth (which is now the Brontë Parsonage Museum), began collecting what became the Honresfield Library in the 1890s. The $20 million came from a number of individual and institutional donors. The roughly 1,400 printed books in the collection will be dispersed among a wider group of institutions across Britain. With the completion of the deal, the manuscript holdings will be distributed to eight institutions: the Bodleian the British Library the National Library of Scotland the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds and house museums dedicated to Jane Austen, Walter Scott, Robert Burns and the Brontës. After the outcry last spring, Sotheby’s agreed to delay the auction, allowing the group, Friends of the National Libraries, to raise money to purchase the collection whole.
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