- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Collins & Brown (1 Aug 1993)
- ISBN-10: 1855851415
- ISBN-13: 978-1855851412
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 18.6 x 1.4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,315,040 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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One of a series which also includes "My Dear Cassandra" (featuring the correspondence of Jane Austen) and "Paper Darts" (Virginia Woolf), this book maps both the real world of the Brontes at Haworth Parsonage, high up on the Yorkshire moors, and the worlds they spun for themselves in their writing and story-telling. Wherever possible it uses the words of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, their brother Branwell and their stern father, the Reverend Patrick Bronte, which are found in their letters to each other, the secret diary of Emily and Anne, and the correspondence between the Brontes as writers, and literary London. These are supplemented by the observations of those few people, such as Mrs Gaskell, who knew them and their works of poetry and fiction. Excerpts from all these sources are juxtaposed with the Brontes' own oils, watercolours and sketches of family and friends, pets and moorland scenes, and tiny drawings made to illustrate the chronicles of their imaginary childhood worlds. Other illustrations include facsimile letters and diary entries, paintings by Victorian artists and pictures of the artefacts which were in daily use at the Parsonage, which is today a place of pilgrimage for visitors from all over the world. Juliet Gardiner's other books include "The People's War", "What is History Today?" and "Over Here: the GIs in Wartime Britain".
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The Holy Grail to the Brontes
23 May 2005
I can't imagine reading about the lives of the Brontes without having this book next to me as a reference for photographs, lithographs, paintings, and text. To be honest, I don't understand why several books better than this one aren't available. Because this one could be topped a thousand times over. And they may exist and I just don't know of them. Meanwhile, this one is the basic must-have for anyone, like me, wishing to go beyond the novels.
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