The Oxford companion to the Brontës /
Alexander, Christine
The Oxford companion to the Brontës / Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith ; with a preface by Claire Harman. - Anniversary edition - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, ©2018 - liii, 586 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Originally published: 2003. Reissued 2018 with a new preface.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. List of maps 2. Editors and Contributors 3. Classified Contents list 4. List of Abbreviations 5. Chronology 6. Maps 7. Note to the reader 8. The Oxford companion to the Brontes A-Z 9. Dialect and Obsolete words 10. Bibliography 11. Picture Acknowledgments
The Oxford Companion to the Brontës' provides both comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontës - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, and their father and brother Branwell - all of whom were published writers. It is the first time so much information about the family has been gathered together in an A-Z reference book. The story of the Brontës has become the stuff of myth: three women living on the wild Yorkshire moors, writing works of weird and wonderful genius. Charlotte Brontë claimed that her sister Emily's novel Wuthering Heights was 'hewn in a wild workshop'. Inspired by a deep love of nature and an intensely private imaginative world it certainly was, but Emily's novel, like those of her sisters, is engaged with 19th-century issues and debates.
9780198819950
Brontë family--Miscellanea.
Authors, English
English fiction
Women novelists, English--History and criticism.--19th century--History and criticism.--19th century--19th century--Biography.
823.809 / ALE
The Oxford companion to the Brontës / Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith ; with a preface by Claire Harman. - Anniversary edition - Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, ©2018 - liii, 586 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Originally published: 2003. Reissued 2018 with a new preface.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. List of maps 2. Editors and Contributors 3. Classified Contents list 4. List of Abbreviations 5. Chronology 6. Maps 7. Note to the reader 8. The Oxford companion to the Brontes A-Z 9. Dialect and Obsolete words 10. Bibliography 11. Picture Acknowledgments
The Oxford Companion to the Brontës' provides both comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontës - the three sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, and their father and brother Branwell - all of whom were published writers. It is the first time so much information about the family has been gathered together in an A-Z reference book. The story of the Brontës has become the stuff of myth: three women living on the wild Yorkshire moors, writing works of weird and wonderful genius. Charlotte Brontë claimed that her sister Emily's novel Wuthering Heights was 'hewn in a wild workshop'. Inspired by a deep love of nature and an intensely private imaginative world it certainly was, but Emily's novel, like those of her sisters, is engaged with 19th-century issues and debates.
9780198819950
Brontë family--Miscellanea.
Authors, English
English fiction
Women novelists, English--History and criticism.--19th century--History and criticism.--19th century--19th century--Biography.
823.809 / ALE