The Brontës
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The Brontës

Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family

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The Brontës

Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family

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A “brilliant” biography of the Brontë 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 Brontë 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 Brontës. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling—but true. Based on firsthand research among all the Brontë manuscripts and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Brontë biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable.
 
The Brontës is a revolutionary picture of the world’s favorite literary family.
 

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2012
ISBN
9781453265260
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Preface To The Second Edition
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. Kirkby Lonsdale
  10. 1 An Ambitious Man
  11. 2 The Promised Land
  12. 3 Good Neighbours and Kind Friends
  13. 4 A Stranger in a Strange Land
  14. 5 Charity-Children
  15. 6 Scribblemania
  16. 7 Emulation Rewarded
  17. 8 Angrians Arise!
  18. 9 The Infernal World
  19. 10 Losing Battles
  20. 11 Slavery
  21. 12 Patrick Boanerges
  22. 13 A Wish for Wings
  23. 14 Isolated in the Midst of Numbers
  24. 15 Monsieur Heger
  25. 16 Mrs Robinson
  26. 17 The Book of Rhymes
  27. 18 Three Tales
  28. 19 The Shadow in the House
  29. 20 Stripped and Bereaved
  30. 21 No Longer Invisible
  31. 22 The Society of Clever People
  32. 23 Running Away From Home
  33. 24 Villette
  34. 25 Tomkins Triumphant
  35. 26 So Happy
  36. 27 Saintliness, Treason and Plot
  37. 28 The End of All
  38. List of Illustrations
  39. Abbreviations
  40. Notes
  41. Index
  42. Copyright Page