Charlotte and emily bronte biography book

First published in , and here reissued for the second time, the emphasis of this book is firmly on the biographical rather than the literary....

The Brontës’ Secret

Culture

The sisters turned domestic constraints into grist for brilliant books.

By Judith Shulevitz

No body of writing has engendered more other bodies of writing than the Bible, but the Brontë corpus comes alarmingly close.

Titles: Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte Biography Author: Winifred Gerin Publisher: Oxford Publication Date: Format: Hardcover.

This is a vintage book, CHARLOTTE & EMILY, by Laura J. Hinkley.

First published in , and here reissued for the second time, the emphasis of this book is firmly on the biographical rather than the literary.

Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

Charlotte Brontë: The Self Conceived () by Helen Moglen.

“Since 1857, when Elizabeth Gaskell published her famous Life of Charlotte Brontë, hardly a year has gone by without some form of biographical material on the Brontës appearing—from articles in newspapers to full-length lives, from images on tea towels to plays, films, and novelizations,” wrote Lucasta Miller in The Brontë Myth, her 2001 history of Brontëmania.

This year the Brontë literary-industrial complex celebrates the bicentennial of Charlotte’s birth, and British and American publishers have been especially busy. In the U.S., there is a new Charlotte Brontë biography by Claire Harman; a Brontë-themed literary detective novel; a novelistic riff on Jane Eyre whose heroine is a serial killer; a collection of shor