The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family

In a revised and updated edition the real story of the Bront sisters by distinguished scholar and historian Juliet Barker. The story of the tragic Bront family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad repressive father the drunken drug-addicted wastrel of a brother wildly romantic Emily unrequited Anne and poor Charlotte. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely thatimaginarycreated by amateur biographers from Mrs. Gaskell who were primarily novelists and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Juliet Barkers landmark book is the first definitive history of the Bronts. It demolishes the myths yet provides startling new information that is just as compellingbut true. Based on first hand research among all the Bront manuscripts and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bront biographers this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The Bronts is a revolutionary picture of the worlds favorite literary family. A Salon.com "Best Book" of 2012 Pick by "Fresh Air"s Maureen Corrigan 20 black and white photographs