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The Brontës
About This Book
The story of the tragic Brontë family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addled wastrel of a brother, wildly romantic Emily, unrequited Anne, and "poor Charlotte." Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers such as Mrs. Gaskell who were primarily novelists and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. 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 Based on first-hand research among all the Brontë manuscripts, including contemporary historical documents never before used by Brontë biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable.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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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface To The Second Edition
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Kirkby Lonsdale
- 1 An Ambitious Man
- 2 The Promised Land
- 3 Good Neighbours and Kind Friends
- 4 A Stranger in a Strange Land
- 5 Charity-Children
- 6 Scribblemania
- 7 Emulation Rewarded
- 8 Angrians Arise!
- 9 The Infernal World
- 10 Losing Battles
- 11 Slavery
- 12 Patrick Boanerges
- 13 A Wish for Wings
- 14 Isolated in the Midst of Numbers
- 15 Monsieur Heger
- 16 Mrs Robinson
- 17 The Book of Rhymes
- 18 Three Tales
- 19 The Shadow in the House
- 20 Stripped and Bereaved
- 21 No Longer Invisible
- 22 The Society of Clever People
- 23 Running Away From Home
- 24 Villette
- 25 Tomkins Triumphant
- 26 So Happy
- 27 Saintliness, Treason and Plot
- 28 The End of All
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright Page