![]() ![]() Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. She has been involved with all recent research into the Bronts and has made many major new finds that are revealed for the first. ![]() Her novel Mr Nicholls (Scratching Shed Publishing Ltd, 2017) is a fictional account of John Robinsons relationship with Mr Nicholls.Correspondence to: Juliet Heslewood. The Brontës is written by Juliet Barker and published by Pegasus Books. Juliet Barker, author of Agincourt and other critically acclaimed works of history and biography, has a PhD in history from Oxford University and was for six years curator of the Bront Parsonage Museum at Haworth. Her Masters degree thesis examined a sense of place in the work of the Brontës. ![]() THE BRONTES is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family.'As a work of scholarship it is briliant. Born in Leeds, Juliet Heslewood grew up in Yorkshire. Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts, many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass, and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. It demolishes myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists, and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. ![]()
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