| Edition |
First Pegasus Books trade paperback edition. |
| Description |
xx, 1158 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Subtitle from cover. |
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"First Pegasus Book cloth edition 2012"--Title page verso. |
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Includes the preface to the second edition (p.[ix]-x). |
| Bibliography |
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 Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this newly revised edition is both scholarly and compulsively readable.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. |
| Subject |
Brontë family.
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Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
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Brontë family. (OCoLC)fst00217339
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Novelists, English. (OCoLC)fst01039718
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Women novelists, English. (OCoLC)fst01178213
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
1605984590 (paperback) |
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9781605984599 (paperback) |
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