Status
Available
Call number
Call number
920 wil
Collection
Publication
P. Bedrick Books (1986), Edition: 1st American Pbk.Ed., 144 pages
Description
Provides a history and biography of the Bronte? sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, their father Patrick, and their brother Branwell.
Subjects
Original publication date
1975
User reviews
LibraryThing member john257hopper
This is a decent account of the lives of the Bronte family, from Patrick's origins as the son of poor peasant farmers in Ireland, to the tragically short lives and literary careers of his famous trio of daughters, all of whom he outlived, but who for the most part emerge here as three distinctive
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individuals. The Brontes' story is a wonderful soap opera of characters in the relatively liberal atmosphere of the Haworth parsonage, with the early deaths of so many of them, played out against a background of poverty and disease in the wider community in early 19th century Yorkshire. Unfortunately, this book was littered with typos, including inaccurate punctuation that irritated me considerably. Show Less
Pages
144