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Juliet Barker: The Brontës: A Life in Letters Juliet Barker: The Brontës: A Life in Letters

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

The Brontë story has been written many times but rarely as compellingly as by the Brontës themselves. In this selection of letters and autobiographical fragments we hear the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, their brother, Branwell, and their father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë. We share in their progress over the years: the exuberant childhood, absorbed in wild, imaginative games; the years of struggling to earn a living in uncongenial occupations before Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall took the literary world by storm; the terrible marring of that success as, one by one, Branwell, Emily and Anne died tragically young; the final years as Charlotte, battling against grief, loneliness and ill health, emerged from anonymity to take her place in London literary society and, finally, found an all too brief… (tovább)

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Little, Brown Books, Boston, Massachusetts, 2016
464 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9781408708316
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Viking, London, 1997
416 oldal · keménytáblás · ISBN: 9780670872121

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