The Brontës (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Juliet Barker
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1777-1861
- Setting: Mainly Haworth, Yorkshire, England
- Principal Characters: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Branwell Brontë, Patrick Brontë
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Parents and children, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Writing, Novelists, Fathers, Sisters, Creative process
- Locales: Yorkshire, England
Many myths grew up around the Brontës, the seemingly self-created, original nineteenth century geniuses who appeared to have materialized out of nowhere, as wild and uncivilized as the moors about which they wrote. This perception prevailed even while they lived and only became more pronounced after their untimely deaths. The primary Brontë mythmaker, as Juliet Barker and others have noted, was Elizabeth Gaskell, who published her biography of Charlotte Brontë in 1857, only two years after Charlotte’s death. It was the first biography of any of the Brontës, and as a work devoted...
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