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 Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts and contemporary historical documents never before u...
| Main Author: | Barker, Juliet R. V. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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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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Table of Contents:
- 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.