The Brontės: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary FamilyA “brilliant” biography of the Brontė family, dispelling popular myths and revealing the true story of Emily, Anne, Charlotte, and their father (The Independent on Sunday). The tragic story of the Brontė family has been told many times: the half-mad, repressive father; the drunken, drug-addicted brother; wildly romantic Emily; unrequited Anne; and “poor Charlotte.” But is any of it true? These caricatures of the popular imagination were created by amateur biographers like Elizabeth Gaskell who were more interested in lurid tales than genuine scholarship. Juliet Barker’s landmark book is the first definitive history of the Brontės. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling—but true. Based on firsthand research among all the Brontė manuscripts and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Brontė biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The Brontės is a revolutionary picture of the world’s favorite literary family. |
Contents
Introduction | |
An Ambitious | |
The Promised Land | |
Good Neighbours and Kind Friends | |
A Stranger in a Strange Land | |
A Wish for Wings | |
Isolated in the Midst of Numbers | |
Monsieur Heger | |
Mrs Robinson | |
The Book of Rhymes | |
Three Tales | |
The Shadow in the House | |
Stripped and Bereaved | |
CharityChildren | |
Scribblemania | |
Emulation Rewarded | |
Angrians Arise | |
9 | |
The Infernal World | |
Losing Battles | |
Slavery | |
Patrick Boanerges | |
13 | |
No Longer Invisible | |
The Society of Clever People | |
Running Away From Home | |
Villette | |
Tomkins Triumphant | |
So Happy | |
Saintliness Treason and Plot | |
The End of | |
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