The Brontës A Life In Letters

Author : Juliet Barker
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780748122189

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The Brontes by Juliet Barker Pdf

The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists, and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes. It demolishes myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts, many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass, and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. THE BRONTES is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family. 'As a work of scholarship it is briliant . . . For those with a passion for the Brontes, or for Victoriana, or for sheer wealth of historical minutiae, it is a stupendous read' INDPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Author : Juliet Barker
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781408708309

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The Brontës: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker Pdf

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 happiness in marriage to her father's curate. 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. 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. Emily and Anne remain tantalizingly evasive. Very few of their letters are extant. Emily's are mere businesslike notes, though these have been supplemented by her more revealing diary papers; Anne's letters are equally frustrating, but only because their quality makes us regret their paucity. Branwell emerges as distinctly as Charlotte from his letters. Whether trying to impress William Wordsworth with his literary abilities, showing off to his artistic friends or finally coming to terms with a life of failed ambition, his character is laid bare on every page. The Reverend Patrick Brontë's devotion to his children and passionate advocacy of liberal causes are equally well illustrated in what can only be a small selection from his voluminous correspondence. The Brontë letters are supplemented by extracts from other contemporary sources, which allow us to see the family as their friends and acquaintances saw them. A brief narrative text guides the reader through the letters and sets them in context. By allowing the Brontës to tell their own story, Juliet Barker has not only produced an innovative form of biography but also given us the unique privilege of participating intimately in the lives of one of the most famous and best-loved families of English literature.

Author : Clement King Shorter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108065221

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The Brontës Life and Letters by Clement King Shorter Pdf

First published in 1908, this two-volume collection documents through correspondence the remarkable careers of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.

Author : Clement King Shorter
Publisher : Haskell House
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106005750390

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The Brontës; Life and Letters by Clement King Shorter Pdf

Author : Juliet Gardiner
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781849947060

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The Illustrated Letters of the Brontës by Juliet Gardiner Pdf

The story both of the real world of the Brontës at Haworth Parsonage, their home on the edge of the lonely Yorkshire moors, and of the imaginary worlds they spun for themselves in their novels and poetry. Wherever possible, their story is told using their own words – the letters they wrote to each other, Emily and Anne's secret diaries, and Charlotte's exchanges with luminaries of literary England – or those closest to them, such as their brother Branwell, their father Patrick Brontë, and their novelist friend Mrs Gaskell. The Brontës sketched and painted their worlds too, in delicate ink washes and watercolours of family and friends, animals and the English moors. These pictures illuminate the text as do the tiny drawings the Brontë children made to illustrate their imaginary worlds. In addition, there are facsimiles of their letters and diaries, paintings by artists of the day, and pictures of household life. This beautifully illustrated book offers a unique and privileged view of the real lives of three women, writers and sisters.

Author : Juliet R. V. Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0140261613

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The Brontës by Juliet R. V. Barker Pdf

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0198185987

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The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: 1848-1851 by Charlotte Brontë Pdf

In this volume we share Charlotte Bronte's experience for four crucial years. The success of Jane Eyre and the strange power of Wuthering Heights made the 'brothers Bell' the 'universal theme of conversation'; but privately the family endured the deaths of Branwell Bronte in September andEmily in December 1848, followed by Anne's in May 1849. Haunted by the fear that she also would succumb, Charlotte found salvation in writing Shirley, published in October 1849, and comfort in her friendship and correspondence with Ellen Nussey, with her publishers-especially George Smith-with MrsGaskell, and (for a time) Harriet Martineau. She may also have received a proposal of marriage from Smith, Edler's manager, James Taylor.

Author : CLEMENT. SHORTER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033417513

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BRONTES, by CLEMENT. SHORTER Pdf

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199576968

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Selected Letters by Charlotte Brontë Pdf

Illustrated throughout with black-and-white plates, this book offers a valuable selection of letters written by Charlotte Bronte ̈from her schooldays to her death in 1855 - chosen by the editor of the complete correspondence. Biographical notes introduce Charlotte's family, friends, and correspondents.

Author : Claire Harman
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307363213

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Charlotte Brontë by Claire Harman Pdf

A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre. Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular, tragic family life. The genius of this biography is that it delves behind this image to reveal a life in which loss and heartache existed alongside rebellion and fierce ambition. Harman seizes on a crucial moment in the 1840s when Charlotte worked at a girls' school in Brussels and fell hopelessly in love with the husband of the school's headmistress. Her torment spawned her first attempts at writing for publication, and he haunts the pages of every one of her novels--he is Rochester in Jane Eyre, Paul Emanuel in Villette. Another unrequited love--for her publisher--paved the way for Charlotte to enter a marriage that ultimately made her happier than she ever imagined. Drawing on correspondence unavailable to previous biographers, Claire Harman establishes Brontë as the heroine of her own story, one as dramatic and triumphant as one of her own novels.

Author : Clement King Shorter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108065238

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The Brontës Life and Letters by Clement King Shorter Pdf

First published in 1908, this two-volume collection documents through correspondence the remarkable careers of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.

Author : Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118405499

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A Companion to the Brontës by Diane Long Hoeveler,Deborah Denenholz Morse Pdf

A Companion to the Brontës brings the latest literary research and theory to bear on the life, work, and legacy of the Brontë family. Includes sections on literary and critical contexts, individual texts, historical and cultural contexts, reception studies, and the family’s continuing influence Features in-depth articles written by well-known and emerging scholars from around the world Addresses topics such as the Gothic tradition, film and dramatic adaptation, psychoanalytic approaches, the influence of religion, and political and legal questions of the day – from divorce and female disinheritance, to worker reform Incorporates recent work in Marxist, feminist, post-colonial, and race and gender studies

Author : Clement King Shorter
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 129677614X

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The Brontes; Life and Letters, Being an Attempt to Present a Full and Final Record of the Lives of the Three Sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte from the Biographies of Mrs. Gaskell and Others, and from Numerous Hitherto Unpublished Mss. and Letters by Clement King Shorter Pdf

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Author : Juliet Barker
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781408708309

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The Brontës: A Life in Letters by Juliet Barker Pdf

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 happiness in marriage to her father's curate. 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. 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. Emily and Anne remain tantalizingly evasive. Very few of their letters are extant. Emily's are mere businesslike notes, though these have been supplemented by her more revealing diary papers; Anne's letters are equally frustrating, but only because their quality makes us regret their paucity. Branwell emerges as distinctly as Charlotte from his letters. Whether trying to impress William Wordsworth with his literary abilities, showing off to his artistic friends or finally coming to terms with a life of failed ambition, his character is laid bare on every page. The Reverend Patrick Brontë's devotion to his children and passionate advocacy of liberal causes are equally well illustrated in what can only be a small selection from his voluminous correspondence. The Brontë letters are supplemented by extracts from other contemporary sources, which allow us to see the family as their friends and acquaintances saw them. A brief narrative text guides the reader through the letters and sets them in context. By allowing the Brontës to tell their own story, Juliet Barker has not only produced an innovative form of biography but also given us the unique privilege of participating intimately in the lives of one of the most famous and best-loved families of English literature.

Author : Decca Aitkenhead
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780385540667

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All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead Pdf

All at Sea is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other’s life, and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water’s edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son’s life—then drowned before her eyes. When Decca and Tony first met, a decade earlier, she was a renowned Guardian journalist profiling leading politicians of the day; he was a dreadlocked criminal with a history of drug dealing and violence. No one thought the romance would last, but it did—until the tide swept Tony away, plunging Decca into the dark chasm of random tragedy. Exploring race and redemption, privilege and prejudice, All at Sea is a breathtakingly honest, profound, and utterly unforgettable memoir.