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 Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and contemporary historical documents never before used b...
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New York, NY :
Pegasus Books LLC,
[2013]
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books trade paperback edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Brontës : |b [wild genius on the moors : the story of a literary family] / |c Juliet Barker. |
| 250 | |a First Pegasus Books trade paperback edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Pegasus Books LLC, |c [2013] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2010 | |
| 300 | |a xx, 1158 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a Subtitle from cover. | ||
| 500 | |a "First Pegasus Book cloth edition 2012"--Title page verso. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes the preface to the second edition (p.[ix]-x). | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a An ambitious man -- The promised land -- Good neighbours and kind friends -- A stranger in a strange land -- Charity-children -- Scribblemania -- Emulation rewarded -- Angrians arise! -- The infernal world -- Losing battles -- Slavery -- Patrick Boanerges -- A wish for wings -- Isolated in the midst of numbers -- Monsieur Heger -- Mrs. Robinson -- The book of rhymes -- Three tales -- The shadow in the house -- Stripped and bereaved -- No longer invisible -- The society of clever people -- Running away from home -- Villette -- Tomkins triumphant -- So happy -- Saintliness, treason and plot -- The end of all. | |
| 520 | |a 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 Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this newly revised edition is both scholarly and compulsively readable.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. | ||
| 600 | 3 | 0 | |a Brontë family |v Biography. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Novelists, English |y 19th century |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women novelists, English |y 19th century |v Biography. | |
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