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The Bronte Connection - Ann Dinsdale (£6.95)

From the Collections Manager at the Bronte Parsonage Museum, a collection of 43 photographs associated with the Brontes' lives and works, with dates and information. Published by Hendon in Nelson.

A Guide to the Historic Haworth & the Brontes - Mark Ward, Ann Dinsdale and Robert Swindells (£5.99)

A new edition of an entertaining and informative guide to Haworth and the surrounding moor, written as a series of four walks with illustrations and lots of historical information. Also from Hendon of Nelson.

Romantic Wycoller: a haunt of the Brontes - E W Folley, photographs Charles Green (£2.99)

At a special price, a facsimile reprint of a book first published in 1949. Covers the history of Wycoller Dene and Hall, the arrival of the Cunliffes, the Bronte connection and local legends, with a surmise that Ferndean Manor of "Jane Eyre" was based on Wycoller. Many b&w illustrations.

The Brontes' Haworth  - S R Whitehead (£6.95)

The place and the people the Brontes knew. Drawing on previously unpublished material, this book explores the physical and social fabric of Haworth at the time the Brontes lived there. With over eighty early photographs, portraits and diagrams.

Oxford Companion to the Brontes - Christine Alexander
Comprehensive and detailed information about the lives, works, and reputations of the Brontes, aiming to evoke the milieu in which they lived and worked and revealing the complex interrelation between their lives, writings and times. (£14.99)

The Brontes (Authors in Context) - Patricia Ingham

Shows how the Brontes’ works reflect the preoccupations of the age in which they lived and address the burning issues of the day: class, gender, race, religion, and mental disorders; how film and other media have reinterpreted the novels for the twenty-first century. Includes a chronology of the Brontes, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. (£7.99)

Pilgrims from Loneliness - Ian Emberson, £9.99
From the Bronte Society, an interpretation of "Jane Eyre" and "Villette"

(published 1847)

The turbulent love story of Cathy and Heathcliff, set on the Yorkshire moors just north of Hebden Bridge, and spanning three generations.

Some popular editions of Wuthering Heights:
Oxford World's Classics, pb, ed. with notes by Ian Jack and Patsy Stoneman, £4.99
Penguin Classics, pb, ed. with notes by Pauline Nestor, £5.99
Dover Thrift, pb, £2.50
Penguin Popular Classics, pb, £1.50
Wordsworth Classics, pb, £1.99
Usborne Classics, pb, retold for children, illustrated, £4.99

Wuthering Heights on Video or DVD

1939 version (b&w) with Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, Flora Robson & David Niven.104 mins.. Covers first half of the book only. DVD £15.99
1995 version with Juliet Binoche and Ralph Fiennes. 102 mins. Video £5.99, DVD £15.99.

Shot around here.

(written 1845-46)

Yorkshire mill clerk William Crimsworth goes to teach in Brussels and finds himself caught between the "older woman" Zoraide Reuter, the headmistress, and the young pupil-teacher Frances Henri. Partly autobiographical. Published by the author's husband after her death.

Some popular editions of The Professor:

Oxford's World's Classics, pb, ed. with notes by Margaret Smith, £5.99
Penguin Classics, pb, ed. with notes by Heather Glen, £6.99

WordsworthClassics, pb, £1.99

(published 1847)

Jane Eyre, "poor, obscure, plain and little", is sent from her unloving aunt's house to the harsh environment of Lowood Institution. She takes up her first post as governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets her gruff new employer, Mr Rochester.

Some popular editions of Jane Eyre:

Jane Eyre on DVD:

Zeffirelli version, 1995, with William Hurt and Charlotte Gainsbourg, £12.99

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(published 1849)

Set amongst theYorkshire cloth mills during the Napoleonic Wars when the economic hardship amongst the workers resulted in violence and machine-smashing . Mill-owner Robert Moore is indifferent to the suffering of his workers ; the two contrasted young women, Caroline Helstone and Shirley, have their own concerns.

Some popular editions of Shirley:

Oxford World's Classics, pb, ed. with notes by Rosengarten & Smith, £4.99
Penguin English Library, pb, £6.99
Wordsworth Classics, pb, £1.99 .

(published 1853)

Lucy Snowe, finding herself jobless and friendless, in desperation travels to Brussels ("Villette") to take employment as a teacher in a girls' school. Against the background of her rich and glamorous pupils and their concerns, she tries to rebuild a life for herself. Her difficult relationship with the professor M. Paul Emanuel is based on her own experience.

Some popular editions of Villette:

Oxford World's Classics, pb, ed. with notes by Margaret Smith,, £5.99
Penguin Clasics , pb, ed. Helen Cooper, , £5.99
Wordsworth Classics, pb, £1.50

(published 1847):

Based on Anne Bronte's own experiences, this is the story of a rector's daughter who goes to work as a governess, first with the spoilt and violent Bloomfield children, and then with the Murrays, boisterous and snobbish local gentry. Published with Wuthering Heights on the heels of Jane Eyre's success.

Some popular editions of Agnes Grey:

(published 1848)

Helen Huntingdon moves with her young son into a rural Yorkshire community where the mystery of her past provokes gossip and hostility. A surprisingly modern story of alcoholism and the abuse of married women told forthrightly and with humour and conviction, partly by Helen herself and partly by the young farmer who falls in love with her. The book was possibly inspired by Anne Bronte's concern about Branwell and the fictional Heathcliff.

Some popular editions of Tenant of Wildfell Hall:

Tenant of Wildfell Hall on audio-cassette:

Tenant of Wildfell Hall on DVD: