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BRONTË LETTERS
The Brontes: A Life in Letters
edited by Juliet Barker, paperback (US) £14.25
A compilation of the Brontes' own words.
The Letters of the Reverend Patrick Bronte, ed. Dudley Green, £16.00
First ever complete collection of his surviving letters, some never before published. This book helps rehabilitate the Reverent Bronte's reputation and reveals a very human side to this misunderstood man.
THE BRONTË POEMS
The Brontes: Selected Poems,
selected and edited by Juliet Barker, pb, Everyman, £2.00
Poems by
the Bronte Sisters: the early work of Charlotte, Emily and Anne
Bronte
hb, A&C Black, £6.99
Best Poems
of the Bronte Sisters,
pb, Dover 95p
Emily Bronte:
Complete
Poems,
ed. Janet Gezari, pb, Penguin Classics Series, £9.99
Emily Bronte:
Poems,
ed. Peter Washington, hb, Everyman Library Pocket Poets, marker
ribbon, £9.99
The Brontes' poems on audio-cassette:
The Brontes:
Selected Poems
Two cassettes, poems by all the Brontes read by four different
actors, £6.99
Retrospection:
An Anthology of Poems by the Brontes & Others, introduced and
read by Alexandra Lesley, 1 cassette (90mins), £5.50. The
majority of the poems are by the Brontes; works by their contemporaries
Scott, Moore, Wordsworth and Shelley are also included.
BOOKS ON THE BRONTËS
The Brontes
- out of stock
by Juliet Barker, hb £25, pb £15.00
Highly acclaimed and ground-breaking book based on firsthand research
of original documents; demolishes the myths and replaces them with
startling and highly readable facts. Winner of the Yorkshire Post
Literary Award Book of the Year. Juliet Barker was formerly Librarian
and Curator at Bronte Parsonage Museum.
The Brontes:
A Life in Letters - out of print
edited by Juliet Barker, hardback £20.00, paperback £12.99
(1997)
A compilation of the Brontes' own words.
Bronte
by Glyn Hughes, pb, £6.99. Hb, £15.99. Out of print, but we have some hardbacks
A novel based on the lives of the Bronte family by locally-based
author. Solidly grounded with lots of fascinating detail. The evocation
of the local landscape and atmosphere of the time is excellent.
Oxford Companion to the Brontes - Christine Alexander, £14.99
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.
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)
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.
Charlotte Bronte
by Rebecca Fraser, £8.99, 2003
Places Charlotte Bronte's life within the perceptual framework of
contemporary attitudes to women.
The Life
of Charlotte Bronte
by Elizabeth Gaskell, pb, £5.99
First published in 1857, this account of Charlotte Bronte's life
is by her friend, the novelist Mrs Gaskell.
Strange World of the Brontes
by Marie Campbell, £9.95
Examines the Bronte family's fascination with the occult and supernatural.
Keighley author.
Recollections of the Brontes - George Sowden
(£3)
Personal recollections of the Brontes by theVicar of Hebden Bridge,
first published 1894, republished by Ian and Catherine Emberson.
Pilgrims from Loneliness - Ian Emberson, £9.99
From the Bronte Society, an interpretation of "Jane Eyre" and "Villette".
The Bronte Sisters Quiz & Puzzle Book
by Maggie Lane, £3.95
Really tests your memory and attention to detail!
Talli's Secret - Julie Noble, £6.99
Cassie Edwards survived the car accident which killed her sister
and crippled their father. She's having a bad time at school, too,
because she's dyspraxic and dyslexic - but then she visits Haworth
Parsonage where she meets the strange Talli ... The book is based
on Juliet Barker's biography of the Bronte sisers and is raising money
for the Dyslexia Institute and the Dyspraxia Foundation. "All the
Brontes had bad handwriting and spelling and no punctuation until
their late teens!" says the author's 12-year-old son, and you can
find out more at www.tallissecret.com
There are many other works on the Brontes,
mostly scholarly.
Please ask for a list.
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