The Bront�s at Haworth - Hardcover

Ann Dinsdale

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ISBN 10: 0711225729 ISBN 13: 9780711225725

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2006

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The three Bront� sisters – Anne, Charlotte and Emily – moved to Haworth Parsonage as children in 1820. It was there, on the edge of the dramatic landscape of the Yorkshire Moors, that they produced some of the most memorable, influential and best-loved novels in the English language. Ann Dinsdale paints a detailed picture of everyday life at Haworth in the 1840s, recounting the Bront� family history and describing the local village and surrounding countryside. She goes on to consider the Bront�s' poetry and novels in the context of their socio-historic background. This book provides fascinating insight into the lives of the authors of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and will be a must for both literature students and Bront� admirers. It is illustrated with numerous rarely seen images from the Haworth archives, including drawings by Charlotte and Emily, together with evocative pictures by local photographer Simon Warner.

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About the Author:

ANN DINSDALE is the librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire, home of the world's largest collection of Bronteana. She writes and lectures on aspects of the Brontes' lives and has a particular interest in social conditions in mid-19th-century Haworth. SIMON WARNER lives in a farmhouse under the edge of Haworth Moor. He is a widely published photographer of the British landscape. The books he has illustrated include National Trail Guides.

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This gorgeously illustrated book explores the life of the Brontes in the context of the place in which they spent most of their lives: Haworth, a beautiful Yorkshire town replete with rolling hills and imposing churchyards. Dinsdale eschews traditional linear biography in favor of exploring separately the life, work, and legacy of each Bronte, including Maria Branwell, who died after giving birth to six children, and the two eldest but short-lived Bronte sisters. Although the chapters are concise, Dinsdale delves deeply into the Brontes' creative endeavors, from their childhood fancies about the imaginative kingdoms of Angria and Gondal, to their poetry and the works that made them famous, including Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. In accessible and engaging prose, Dinsdale draws from Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of Charlotte to illuminate the lives of the famous family, and Simon Warner's photographs capture the magnificent beauty of the moors the Brontes wandered and the sorrow of the cluttered graveyard just outside their house. A remarkable book that will without a doubt draw literature lovers. Kristine Huntley
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