Bronte Wilde

An early novel by the distinguished American writer Fanny Howe, recently revised, Bronte Wilde, set against the background of the emerging counter-culture of the early 1960s, is the tragic tale of a dispossessed young woman, in thrall to a childhood friend, who flees from the East to the West coast of the USA in a vain bid to reinvent herself.

Fanny Howe, acclaimed as a poet and novelist, was born in Buffalo, NY, and brought up in Boston. For some years she was professor of literature at the...