Charlotte and Emily Brontë: Literary Lives

by Edward Chitham, Tom Winnifrith

Overview

This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were built up. It makes use of recent research into background and reading matter to investigate the development of the authors' poetry and novels.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333421987
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/22/1989
Series:	Literary Lives
Edition description:	1989
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

TOM WINNIFRITH is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick and Director of the Centre for Research in the European Humanities. His many previous books include The Brontës and their Background, Brontë Facts and Brontë Problems (with Edward Chitham), Aspects of the Epic, Greece Old and New, Nineteen Eighty Four and All's Well? (with William Whitehead) and A New Life of Charlotte Brontë.

EDWARD CHITHAM is a part-time Lecturer for the Open University. His previous publications include The Black Country, Ghost in the Water (a children's novel) and several books on the Brontës, including The Brontës' Irish Background, The Poems of Anne Brontë and Brontë Facts and Brontë Problems (with Tom Winnifrith).

Table of Contents

Life - Origins - Religion - Schooling - Reading - Teaching - Belgium - Poems - Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - Shirley and Villette - Notes - Index