Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: 9780349122427 Number of pages: 1184 Weight: 796 g Dimensions: 130 x 199 x 57 mm You may also be interested in. For those with a passion for the Brontes, or for Victoriana, or for sheer wealth of historical minutiae, it is a stupendous read' INDPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'As a work of scholarship it is briliant. THE BRONTES is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family. Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts, many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass, and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The author begins with a realistic acknowledgment: Yet another biography of the Brontes. It demolishes myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Barker proves herself an impeccable editor of family papers we are all the richer for possessing. Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes. In The Bronts: A Life in Letters, Juliet Barker has produced a work of impeccable scholarship but also a story as dramatic, and undeniably readable as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists, and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts, many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass, and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. It demolishes myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as. Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes. At 830 pages (plus notes,) Juliet Barkers biography The Brontes is incredibly comprehensive.

* Abacus reissue of Juliet Barker's unrivalled biography of the Bronte sisters, revised for this edition Num Pages: 1184 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos.

The Brontës by Juliet Barker