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The Oxford companion to the Brontës / Christine Alexander and Margaret Smith ; with a preface by Claire Harman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, ©2018Edition: Anniversary editionDescription: liii, 586 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780198819950
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.809 23 ALE
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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General Books General Books CUTN Central Library Literature Fiction 823.809 ALE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 41915

Originally published: 2003.

Reissued 2018 with a new preface.

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.

Includes bibliographical references.

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