The Brontes by Juliet Barker

The Brontes by Juliet Barker

The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to many: the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild, romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and "poor Charlotte". However, these are imaginary stereotypes, 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. Later biographers still repeat Mrs Gaskell's mistakes and have relied on bowdlerised texts published by T.J. Wise, a forger. This book aims to demolish myths and provides startling new information. It is based on first-hand research amongst all the Bronte manuscripts and amongst contemporary historical documents.

Juliet Barker has a D.Phil in history from Oxford University, and was for six years librarian/curator of the Bronte Parsonage Museum at Haworth. She has been involved with all recent research into the Brontes, and has made many major new finds which are revealed for the first time in this book.

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ISBN 13	9781857990690
ISBN 10	1857990692
Titre	The Brontes
Auteur	Juliet Barker
Série	Phoenix Giants S
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Orion Publishing Co
Année de publication	1995-08-01
Nombre de pages	1002
Prix	Winner of Yorkshire Post Literary Award Book of the Year Category 1994
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