The Brontes
by Barker, Juliet
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- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0349122423
- ISBN 13
- 9780349122427
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About This Item
Photos included in listing. Abacus, 2010 About the book: The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists, and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes. It demolishes myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts, many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass, and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. THE BRONTES is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family. 'As a work of scholarship it is briliant .For those with a passion for the Brontes, or for Victoriana, or for sheer wealth of historical minutiae, it is a stupendous read' INDPENDENT ON SUNDAY. 2nd Edition. Soft cover. Good.
Synopsis
The Brontë sisters, Charlotte (21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855), Emily (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) and Anne (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849), were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature.
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- Bookseller
- Emily Green Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1708276010670
- Title
- The Brontes
- Author
- Barker, Juliet
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0349122423
- ISBN 13
- 9780349122427
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Place of Publication
- Uk
- Date Published
- 2010
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