The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë and Her FamilyUsing recently uncovered sources and a societal perspective, Fraser has created a unique portrait of the two sisters and their family. Writing from a contemporary perspective and drawing on previously unknown documents, Fraser makes us see Charlotte Bronte and her sisters as their contemporaries saw them, as passionately outspoken women who dared to claim for their sex an equal right to the passions and desires of men. |
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... Hunsworth Mills , Cleckheaton , where red army cloth was manufactured . Hunsworth Mill , with Rawfolds Mill at Liversedge , would be the origins of the Hollows Mill in Shirley . Although motorways – the M 62 and the M 606 – run past it ...
... Hunsworth Mills , Cleckheaton , where red army cloth was manufactured . Hunsworth Mill , with Rawfolds Mill at Liversedge , would be the origins of the Hollows Mill in Shirley . Although motorways – the M 62 and the M 606 – run past it ...
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... Hunsworth . I am very glad of them . ' When Mary Taylor returned to Hunsworth Mill for her farewell visit at the beginning of January 1845 , bearing no letter from M. Heger , something in Charlotte snapped . On 8 January she wrote to ...
... Hunsworth . I am very glad of them . ' When Mary Taylor returned to Hunsworth Mill for her farewell visit at the beginning of January 1845 , bearing no letter from M. Heger , something in Charlotte snapped . On 8 January she wrote to ...
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... Hunsworth Mill where Mary's many vociferous siblings and cousins were assembled from round about to bid her farewell before she departed for New Zealand . It was the last time , as Charlotte put it picturesquely , that she and Mary ...
... Hunsworth Mill where Mary's many vociferous siblings and cousins were assembled from round about to bid her farewell before she departed for New Zealand . It was the last time , as Charlotte put it picturesquely , that she and Mary ...
Contents
Origins | 1 |
Haworth and Cowan Bridge | 18 |
That Visionary Region of Imagination | 43 |
Copyright | |
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