Description
This landmark biography presents the Brontë family as a single, living world—shaped by isolation, fierce creativity, and the complicated bonds of love, rivalry, and duty. Drawing away from lurid myth and gossip, Juliet Barker restores the historical record with intimate detail, illuminating the lives of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and their brother Branwell as they navigate a harsh landscape and an even harsher inner weather. Through the family’s shared parsonage existence at Haworth, the book explores how imagination can both sustain and endanger, and how art grows from longing, faith, and emotional fracture. Barker’s narrative is both scholarly and vividly human, offering an engrossing portrait of genius in the making while leaving room for the mystery that still surrounds Emily and Anne.
Available Editions
paperback
St. Martin's Press
Published Jan 1, 1995
1003 pages
ISBN: 9780312134457
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Details
First Published
1994
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Brontës by Juliet Barker.