The Brontë Myth (Magill’s Literary Annual 2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lucasta Miller
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: Biography and literary criticism
- Time of Work: 1816-2004
- Setting: Haworth, Yorkshire, England
- Principal Characters: Patrick Brontë, Branwell Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, A. C. Benson, May Sinclair, Winifred Gerin, Lyndall Gordon, Juliette Barker
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Mythology or myths, Authors or writers, Literature, Rural or country life, England or English people, Sisters, Women, Legends, Reading, Great Britain, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: Yorkshire, England
As Lucasta Miller shows, the story of the Brontë family rivals the fiction they produced. It is important to remember that their work appeared at the end of the Romantic period, when the personality of the writer was as important to readers as the work itself. All of the Brontës found the Byronic hero—not only the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, himself but also the characters in his poetry—immensely fascinating. The three sisters and brother produced juvenilia that clearly embodied a Romantic world of heroes and villains and of strong personalities who dominated the make-believe...
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