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The tragic story of the Bronte family is well known, replete with a half-mad father, a wastrel of a brother, and three uniquely gifted - and oppressed - sisters. But beyond these familiar details, the Brontes' story has remained largely obscure.
This landmark book is the first definitive history of this fascinating family. Based on eleven years of research among newly discovered letters by every member of the family, original manuscripts, and the newspapers of that time, it gives a new and fuller picture of the Brontes' lives from beginning to end and, in the process, demolishes many myths.
The father, Patrick, was not, as commonly believed, the cold patriarch of a family of victims. Charlotte, ruthlessly self-willed, ran roughshod over her sisters and went so far as to alter or destroy their manuscripts when she disapproved. Emily was so psychologically and physically dependent on her fantasy life that she could not survive in the outside world. Anne, widely regarded as the gentlest of the sisters, had a core of steel and was a more daring and revolutionary author than Charlotte.
Branwell, the adored brother, was a talented poet who provided much of Charlotte's inspiration.
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Novelists, English, English Novelists, English Authors, Authors, English, Biography, Brontë (famille), Biographie, Bronte family, Authors, biography, Authors, correspondencePeople
Brontë familyPlaces
Yorkshire (England)Times
19th centuryShowing 5 featured editions. View all 5 editions?
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The Brontës
2001, Phoenix Press, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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1842125877 9781842125878
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Thomas Dunne book."
"First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld and Nicolson."
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A history of the Bronte family, attempting to demolish the myths surrounding the sisters, while providing new information based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and from contemporary historical documents previously unused by Brontebiographers.
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