Subtitle from cover. "First Pegasus Book cloth edition 2012"--Title page verso. Includes the preface to the second edition (p.[ix]-x). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
An ambitious man -- The promised land -- Good neighbours and kind friends -- A stranger in a strange land -- Charity-children -- Scribblemania -- Emulation rewarded -- Angrians arise! -- The infernal world -- Losing battles -- Slavery -- Patrick Boanerges -- A wish for wings -- Isolated in the midst of numbers -- Monsieur Heger -- Mrs. Robinson -- The book of rhymes -- Three tales -- The shadow in the house -- Stripped and bereaved -- No longer invisible -- The society of clever people -- Running away from home -- Villette -- Tomkins triumphant -- So happy -- Saintliness, treason and plot -- The end of all.
Summary:
Juliet Barker's landmark book is the first definitive history of the Brontes. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling---but true. Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this newly revised edition is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The Brontes is a revolutionary picture of the world's favorite literary family.
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