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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Millions have been drawn to Haworth and the surrounding moors by the power of the Bronte novels. The Bront?s were firmly rooted in Haworth and the sad story of their lives exerts as much fascination as their fiction. Elizabeth Gaskell’s romanticized biography published two years after Charlotte’s death has drawn people from all over the world to the grim moorland village which in the mid-nineteenth century was the home of Charlotte (1816-1855) Emily (1818- 1848) and Anne (1820-1849) Bront? and where they wrote some of the greatest novels in the English language. The Bront?s came to Haworth in 1820 when the youngest Anne was still a babe-in-arms. Haworth Parsonage remained the family’s home for the rest of their lives and the wild Yorkshire landscape had a profound influence on their writing. At that time a third of Haworth’s rough-hewn population was