The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker

The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker

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The definitive collection of the Brontes' letters, selected by the unrivalled authority on the family.

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The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker

The definitive collection of the Brontes' letters, selected by the unrivalled authority on the family.

The Brontes: A Life in Letters is exhilarating because it is a portrait of six extraordinary people in their
own words. . Barker's interpolations are not numerous but pithy and to the point

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An immersive experience in understanding how the sisters worked together to give their storytelling genius to the world * Toronto Star *

Born in Yorkshire, Juliet Barker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she studied history. Widely acclaimed for setting new standards of literary biography, she is also an expert on chivalry and the world authority on medieval English tournaments. Her books include The Brontës,Conquest and the bestselling Agincourt. In 1999 she was one of the youngest ever recipients of an honorary Doctorate of Letters,awarded by the University of Bradford in recognition of her outstanding contribution to literary biography, and in 2001 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is married,with two children, and lives in the South Pennines.

www.julietbarker.co.uk

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ISBN 13 9781408708316
ISBN 10 1408708310
Title The Brontes: A Life in Letters
Author Juliet Barker
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Year published 2016-04-21
Number of pages 464
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