The Brontës And Their World
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few literary families have captured the imagination quite like the Brontës — three sisters raised on the windswept Yorkshire moors who produced some of the most enduring works in the English canon. Phyllis Bentley's The Brontës and their World presents a richly illustrated biographical portrait of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, situating their lives and creative output within the dramatic landscapes and turbulent social history of 19th-century England. Bentley chronicles the hardships of the Haworth parsonage, the tragic early deaths that defined the family, and the extraordinary imaginative fire that produced Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Bentley, herself a Yorkshire novelist with a deep affinity for the region, writes with authority and intimacy, drawing on historical documents, portraits, and period illustrations to construct a vivid account of genius nurtured in isolation. The book illuminates not just the biographical facts but the cultural and psychological forces that shaped three women who dared to write honestly about passion, freedom, and survival in a world that offered them precious little of either. For any admirer of Victorian literature, this volume raises a compelling question: how much of the moors can be found in the writing — and how much of the writing is the moors?
Author: Phyllis Bentley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Thames and Hudson
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
Few literary families have captured the imagination quite like the Brontës — three sisters raised on the windswept Yorkshire moors who produced some of the most enduring works in the English canon. Phyllis Bentley's The Brontës and their World presents a richly illustrated biographical portrait of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë, situating their lives and creative output within the dramatic landscapes and turbulent social history of 19th-century England. Bentley chronicles the hardships of the Haworth parsonage, the tragic early deaths that defined the family, and the extraordinary imaginative fire that produced Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Bentley, herself a Yorkshire novelist with a deep affinity for the region, writes with authority and intimacy, drawing on historical documents, portraits, and period illustrations to construct a vivid account of genius nurtured in isolation. The book illuminates not just the biographical facts but the cultural and psychological forces that shaped three women who dared to write honestly about passion, freedom, and survival in a world that offered them precious little of either. For any admirer of Victorian literature, this volume raises a compelling question: how much of the moors can be found in the writing — and how much of the writing is the moors?