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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> WRITERS’ LIVES TEND to be as fascinating to us as their fictions even when there is relatively little biographical information available. In fact the less we know the more fascinated we become. Certainly the Brontes have exerted an extraordinarily powerful hold over our collective imagination for more than 150 years now. Generations of readers writers and artists have been absorbed and inspired by them and they have permeated our cultural landscape at every level. We are the Bront?s. The Bront?s’ cultural pervasiveness is largely explained by the power of the stories they created but the story of the Bront?s’ own lives has been and continues to be equally compelling. It is easy to understand why with so many irresistible components: the wild moorland landscape surrounding Haworth the spectre of early family bereavement; the intense imaginative worlds of childhood; the remarkable literary achievement of three sisters all writing great English novels under one roof; the precociously talented but fatally flawed brother; and of course the ‘tragic’ early deaths. It was Charlotte Bront?’s friend the novelist Mrs Gaskell who wrote the first Bronte biography in 1857 within two years of Charlotte’s death. Her The Life of Charlotte Bront? was written in part to satisfy an already burgeoning public interest in the Bronte family. The Bronte story has been told and re-told many times since with all manner of different emphases and interpretive slants. Right up to the present day it has been the ground for much dispute not only within biography but also literary criticism fiction poetry theatre and film.