Charlotte Bronte : a life /
by Harman, Claire.
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BookPublisher: UK : Viking, 2015Description: xii, 446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780670922260 (hbk.) :; 0670922269 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 920 BROSubject(s): Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855 | Women novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography | Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography | Biography | BiographySummary: Charlotte Bronte's life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. She was raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away to brutally strict boarding school at a young age. She watched helpless growing up as, one by one, her five beloved siblings sickened and died; by the end of her short life, she was the only child of the Bronte clan remaining. And most fascinating and tragic of all, throughout her adult life she was haunted by a great and unrequited love - a love that tortured Charlotte but also inspired some of the most moving, intense and revolutionary novels ever written in the English language. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Bronte family.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Maghull Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 920 BRO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Change Dewey label on return | 002920389X |
Illustrations and text on lining papers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Charlotte Bronte's life contained all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. She was raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors and sent away to brutally strict boarding school at a young age. She watched helpless growing up as, one by one, her five beloved siblings sickened and died; by the end of her short life, she was the only child of the Bronte clan remaining. And most fascinating and tragic of all, throughout her adult life she was haunted by a great and unrequited love - a love that tortured Charlotte but also inspired some of the most moving, intense and revolutionary novels ever written in the English language. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Bronte family.
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