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In a brilliant combination of biography, literary criticism and history, The Brontë Myth shows how Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë became cultural icons whose ever-changing reputations reflected the obsessions of various eras. When literary London learned that Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Charlotte Brontë: Add a description of this character.
- Emily Brontë
- Anne Brontë
- Branwell Brontë
- Elizabeth Gaskell: Author who wrote the first biography of Charlotte Brontë.
- Matthew Arnold
- Jane Austen
- Reverend Patrick Brontë
- George Eliot (Marian Evans)
- Thomas Carlyle
- Lord Byron
- George Smith
- Mary Robinson
- Ellen Nussey
- Harriet Martineau
- Catherine Winkworth
- G. H. Lewes
- William Smith Williams
- Thomas Wemyss Reid
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Setting & Locations edit
Haworth
First Sentence edit
If the twenty-one-year-old Charlotte Brontë had been told that she would one day be a household name, that her picture would hang in a future National Portrait Gallery, and that pilgrims would travel to Haworth on her account from as far away as Japan, she would have benn delighted by not altogether surprised.
Table of Contents edit
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
One: To Be for Ever Known
Two: Poor Miss Bronte
Three: Life into Literature
Four: The Angel in the House
Five: Secrets and Psychobiography
Six: Fiction and Feminism
Seven: Interpreting Emily
Eight: A Worman Worthy of Being Asked
Nine: The Mystic of the Moors
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lucasta Miller (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0375412778
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2004
ISBN: 0375412778
Page Count: 368
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: PR4168.M49
- Dewey: 823.809
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies › Women Writers
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Books & Reading › Women Writers & Feminist Theory
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Authors
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