Description: The Brontes: A Life in Letters Author: Juliet Barker Title: The Brontes: A Life in Letters Publication: Overlook Press, 1998 Description: Hardcover. Three-quarter bound hardcover with gilt lettering to spine in a like new dust jacket. 8vo. (5 x 1 x 8 inches) Includes a list of illustrations, chronology, note to the text, list of correspondents and an index. 415 pp.Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Like new / Like new. UPON ITS publication in 1995, Juliet Barker's The Brontës was deemed a monumental achievement that set a new standard in literary biography; it garnered rave reviews and was cited as a New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book. In The Brontës: A Life in Letters, the much anticipated follow-up to that landmark biography, Barker uses her unrivaled knowledge of the Brontë family, including newly discovered letters and manuscripts, to create an absorbing and entertaining book that is as original, compelling, and bold as the Brontë family.Barker's selection of letters reveals the authentic voices of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, as well as their brother, Branwell, and father, Reverend Patrick Brontë. Charlotte was a letter writer of supreme ability, ranging from facetious notes and intimate gossip to artfully composed pages of literary criticism, while Emily and Anne remain tantalizingly evasive, as few of their letters are extant. The letters detail the siblings' strange, self-absorbed childhood, highlighted by wild imaginative games and the years of struggle to earn a living before Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall took the literary world by storm. The letters continue through the final years and the terrible marring of success as one by one Branwell, Emily, and Anne died tragically young and as Charlotte, battling against grief, loneliness and ill-health, emerged from anonymity to take her place in London literary society and, finally, found all too brief happiness in marriage to her father's curate.By allowing the Brontës to tell their own story, Barker has produced an innovative form of biography that is both a work of impeccable scholarship and a story as dramatic, haunting, and undeniably readable as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Seller ID: 202518 Subject: From the Library of Peter Green, Literature , Memoirs and Biographies The Anthropologists Closet offers a wide variety of non-fiction academic books that are hard to find. We have been in business since 2014. Terms All orders ship within two business days. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
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Author: Juliet Barker
Publisher: Overlook Press
Year Printed: 1998
Special Attributes: Dust Jacket
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
