The Brontes: A Life in Letters

The Brontes: A Life in Letters
Title The Brontes: A Life in Letters PDF eBook
Author Juliet Barker
Publisher Harry N. Abrams
Pages 0
Release 2002-06-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781585671526

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Collects the correspondence of the three novelist sisters as well as their brother and father. The bulk of the letters are from Charlotte, since few of the letters of Emily and Anne are extant. The letters are addressed to publishers, writers including William Wordsworth, suitors, editors, members of the clergy, academics, and friends. Includes a chronology of the writers' lives. Indexed by proper name and correspondent. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851

The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851
Title The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851 PDF eBook
Author Charlotte Brontë
Publisher Clarendon Press
Pages 866
Release 1995
Genre Authors, English
ISBN 9780198185987

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In this volume we share Charlotte Bronte's experience for four crucial years. The success of Jane Eyre and the strange power of Wuthering Heights made the 'brothers Bell' the 'universal theme of conversation'; but privately the family endured the deaths of Branwell Bronte in September andEmily in December 1848, followed by Anne's in May 1849. Haunted by the fear that she also would succumb, Charlotte found salvation in writing Shirley, published in October 1849, and comfort in her friendship and correspondence with Ellen Nussey, with her publishers-especially George Smith-with MrsGaskell, and (for a time) Harriet Martineau. She may also have received a proposal of marriage from Smith, Edler's manager, James Taylor.

Selected Letters

Selected Letters
Title Selected Letters PDF eBook
Author Charlotte Brontë
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 318
Release 2010-09-09
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0199576963

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Illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates, this book offers a valuable selection of letters written by Charlotte Bronte ̈from her schooldays to her death in 1855 - chosen by the editor of the complete correspondence. Biographical notes introduce Charlotte's family, friends, and correspondents.

The Brontës

The Brontës
Title The Brontës PDF eBook
Author Juliet Barker
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 838
Release 2012-08-07
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1453265260

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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.

The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës

The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës
Title The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës PDF eBook
Author Juliet Gardiner
Publisher Batsford
Pages 589
Release 2021-04-13
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1849947066

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The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës is the story both of the real world of the Brontës at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary worlds they spun for themselves in their novels and poetry. Wherever possible, their story is told using their own words – the letters they wrote to each other, Emily and Anne's secret diaries, and Charlotte's exchanges with luminaries of literary England – or those closest to them, such as their brother Branwell, their father Patrick Brontë, and their novelist friend Mrs Gaskell. The Brontës sketched and painted their worlds too, in delicate ink washes and watercolours of family and friends, animals and the English moors. These pictures illuminate the text as do the tiny drawings the Brontë children made to illustrate their imaginary worlds. In addition, there are facsimiles of their letters and diaries, paintings by artists of the day, and pictures of household life. It is a unique and privileged view of the real lives of three women, writers and sisters.

Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë
Title Charlotte Brontë PDF eBook
Author Claire Harman
Publisher Vintage
Pages 569
Release 2016-03-01
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307962091

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On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Brontë from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Brontë famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman’s biography is that it transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to quiet rebellion and fierce ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previous biographers, Harman depicts Charlotte’s inner life with absorbing, almost novelistic intensity. She seizes upon a moment in Charlotte’s adolescence that ignited her determination to reject poverty and obscurity: While working at a girls’ school in Brussels, Charlotte fell in love with her married professor, Constantin Heger, a man who treated her as “nothing special to him at all.” She channeled her torment into her first attempts at a novel and resolved to bring it to the world's attention. Charlotte helped power her sisters’ work to publication, too. But Emily’s Wuthering Heights was eclipsed by Jane Eyre, which set London abuzz with speculation: Who was this fiery author demanding love and justice for her plain and insignificant heroine? Charlotte Brontë’s blazingly intelligent women brimming with hidden passions would transform English literature. And she savored her literary success even as a heartrending series of personal losses followed. Charlotte Brontë is a groundbreaking view of the beloved writer as a young woman ahead of her time. Shaped by Charlotte’s lifelong struggle to claim love and art for herself, Harman’s richly insightful biography offers readers many of the pleasures of Brontë’s own work.

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Title The Life of Charlotte Brontë PDF eBook
Author Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher
Pages 464
Release 1870
Genre
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