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The Brontës wild genius on the moors : the story of a literary family

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 Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and contemporary historical documents never before used b...

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Main Author: Barker, Juliet R. V.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Pegasus Books LLC, [2013]
Edition:First Pegasus Books trade paperback edition.
Subjects:
Brontë family > Biography.
Novelists, English > 19th century > Biography.
Women novelists, English > 19th century > Biography.
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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 Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this newly revised edition is both scholarly and compulsively readable.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.
Item Description:Subtitle from cover.
"First Pegasus Book cloth edition 2012"--Title page verso.
Includes the preface to the second edition (p.[ix]-x).
Physical Description:xx, 1158 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1605984590 (paperback)
9781605984599 (paperback)
Author Notes:Juliet Barker, author of Agincourt and other acclaimed works of history and biography, has a PhD in history from Oxford University and was for six years curator of the Bront Parsonage Museum at Haworth. She has been involved with all recent research into the Bronts and has made many major new finds that are revealed for the first time in this book.

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