![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Brontës is a revolutionary picture of the world’s favorite literary family. Based on firsthand research among all the Brontë manuscripts and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Brontë biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling-but true. The Tournament in England, 1100-1400, Boydell Press (. Juliet Barker’s landmark book is the first definitive history of the Brontës. (Editor and author of introduction and notes) The Bronts Selected Poems, Dent (London, England), 1985. By allowing the Bronts to tell their own story, Juliet Barker has not only produced an innovative form of biography but also given us the unique privilege of. 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. ![]() 4 Coleridge began an encouraging letter about the quality of the translations in NovemberDecember 1840 but never finished it. 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 ). According to Juliet Barker s biography of the Brontës, he may have fathered an illegitimate child during time in the town, but others suspect that it may be more of Brontës boasting. ![]()
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