The Brontes: Interviews and Recollections

by Harold Orel (Editor)

Overview

The Brontes, living in an isolated village in Yorkshire, wrote some of the most vivid, imaginative, and widely-read novels of the Victorian Age; they also became the subject-matter of romanticized anecdotes and regrettably distorted biographies. The best testimony about what kinds of men and women they really were comes from statements they made themselves; but because their autobiographical commentaries are sparse, the record is usefully supplemented in this anthology by first-hand statements made not only by various inhabitants of Haworth, but by those who met members of the Bronte family in Yorkshire, London, and elsewhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333663141
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/29/1996
Series:	Interviews and Recollections
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	221
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Editorial Reviews

An anthology of 40 selections from books and periodicals, many never reprinted before in their entirety, offering accounts of the life of the Bront<:e> sisters and their extended family. Material is arranged chronologically. Authors include William Makepeace Thackeray, Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Bront<:e>s themselves. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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