![]() Emily and Anne remain tantalizingly evasive. Charlotte was a letter-writer of supreme ability, ranging from facetious notes and homely gossip to carefully composed pages of literary criticism and, most movingly of all, elegiac tributes to her beloved brother and sisters. Juliet Barker, author of the highly acclaimed biography The Brontës has used her unrivalled knowledge of the family to select extracts from letters and manuscripts, many of which are appearing here in print for the first time. 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, W uthering 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 happiness in marriage to her father's curate. ![]() 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. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Brontë story has been written many times but rarely as compellingly as by the Brontës themselves. ![]()
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