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Title: The Brontes: A Life in Letters by Juliet R. V. Barker, Juliet Barker ISBN: 1-58567-152-5 Publisher: Overlook Press Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Engrossing!!!
Comment: It is one thing to read a biographical account of the terribly short lives of the Brontes, it is quite another to read Charlotte's first-hand account of losing the people dearest to her. As I read her letters, I could sense the solitude at Haworth, feel the miserable weather, and hear the hollow ticking of the clock following each passing. The book is not all somber though. I am a new fan, and this book has left an indellible impression on me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Reads like a novel
Comment: The Brontes' lives were double distilled into fiction: once in their own writings and again in Mrs Gaskell's life of Charlotte. Juliet Barker did a wonderful job of resurrecting Patrick's reputation from Mrs Gaskell's character assasination in "The Brontes" and I do not see how this collection of letters for the general reader could be bettered. The editorial commentary is everything it should be and I think this book is a model of its kind. Incredible immediacy. I have never felt closer to Haworth Parsonage and its amazing inhabitants.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fantastic
Comment: Unfortunately, the book focuses mainly on Charlotte, but only b/c she wrote the most letters. This is a fantastic edition of the Brontes letters. The letters themselves are so intriguing, it makes one wonder about the letters which have not survived. What would Charlotte, such a brilliant correspondant, have written to Arthur Bell Nicholls, the man who eventually b/c her husband? What would Emily, such a terse correspondant, have written to Charlotte while she was in Brussels. Barker attempts to balance the book by including Emily and Anne's diary papers. Patrick's letters humanize him, and Maria Branwell Bronte's letters are particularly touching.
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Title: The Life of Charlotte Bronte (PENGUIN CLASSICS) by Elizabeth Gaskell, Elisabeth Jay ISBN: 0140434933 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life by Lyndall Gordon ISBN: 0393314480 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Brontes by Juliet Barker ISBN: 0312145551 Publisher: St Martins Pr (P) Pub. Date: 01 November, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Brontë Myth by LUCASTA MILLER ISBN: 0375412778 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Shirley (Oxford World's Classics) by Charlotte Bronte, Herbert Rosengarten, Margaret Smith ISBN: 0192833782 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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