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Winifred Gerin

Author : Helen MacEwan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 178284256X
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Winifred Gerin written by Helen MacEwan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographer Winifred Gerin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Bronte enthusiast twenty years her junior. Together they turned their backs on London to live within sight of the Parsonage, Gerin believing that full understanding of the Brontes required total immersion in their environment. Gerin's childhood and youth, like the Brontes', was characterised by a cultured home and intense imaginative life shared with her sister and two brothers, and by family tragedies (the loss of two siblings in early life). Strong cultural influences formed the children's imagination: polyglot parents, French history, the Crystal Palace, Old Vic productions. Winifred's years at Newnham College, Cambridge were enlivened by eccentric characters such as the legendary lecturer Quiller-Couch (Q'), Lytton Strachey's sister Pernel and Bloomsbury's favourite philosopher, G.E. Moore. Her happy life in Paris with her Belgian cellist husband, Eugene Gerin, was brought to an abrupt end by the Second World War, in which the couple had many adventures: fleeing occupied Belgium, saving Jews in Nice in Vichy France, escaping through Spain and Portugal to England, where they did secret war work for Political Intelligence near Bletchley. After Eugene's death in 1945 Winifred coped with bereavement through poetry and playwriting until discovering her true literary metier on the trip to Haworth. She also wrote about Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Fanny Burney. The book is based on her letters and on her unpublished memoir.

Charlotte Brontë

Author : Winifred Gérin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198116387
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë written by Winifred Gérin and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winifred Gérin studies in detail Charlotte Brontë's adolescent writings, preserved in manuscript and explores the wide range of early stimuli which influenced the growth of her precocious talents. She also considered the backgrounds and personalities of Charlotte's acquaintances, with special reference to her relationships with Mrs Gaskell, and with the Heger family in Belgium. The interaction of experience on intellectual development has been closely followed from childhood to established fame.

Elizabeth Gaskell

Author : Winifred Gérin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by Winifred Gérin and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Winifred Gérin

Author : Helen MacEwan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845197438
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Winifred Gérin written by Helen MacEwan and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographer Winifred Gérin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Brontë siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Brontë enthusiast twenty years her junior. After his death in 1945 Winifred coped with bereavement through poetry and playwriting until discovering her true literary metier on the trip to Haworth. She also wrote about Elizabeth Gaskell, Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Fanny Burney. The book is based on her letters and on her unpublished memoir.

A Life of Emily Brontë

Author : Edward Chitham
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445612356
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book A Life of Emily Brontë written by Edward Chitham and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive biography of the Brontë sister that wrote Wuthering Heights.

Charlotte Brontë

Author : Lyndall Gordon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393314489
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Charlotte Brontë written by Lyndall Gordon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The] contradictions in Bronte] s] life are not only fully chronicled by Lyndall Gordon s splendid new biography, but also gracefully explicated to give the reader a vivid and emotionally detailed portrait of the novelist and her work. . . . Gordon] chooses to use her imaginative sympathies honed to precision with earlier biographies of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot to delineate her subject s rich interior life. Michiko Kakutani, New York Times"

Down The Belliard Steps

Author : Helen MacEwan
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1803818662
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Down The Belliard Steps written by Helen MacEwan and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A craze blown across the Channel from Britain to Brussels - people who meet to talk about the works of the Brontë sisters.' (From a Brussels press article about the newly-formed Brussels Brontë Group). In 1842 Charlotte and Emily Brontë arrived in Brussels to study French at the Pensionnat Heger boarding school at the bottom of the 'Belliard steps'. Their stay in the Belgian capital is the least-known episode of their lives, despite the importance of Charlotte's years in Belgium for her life and work; two of her novels ('Villette' and 'The Professor') were inspired by her time in Brussels and her love for her teacher, Constantin Heger. 'Down the Belliard Steps' tells the story of a group of enthusiasts coming together in Brussels to explore the sisters' time in the city. Beginning with her personal experience as a newcomer to 'the capital of Europe' in 2004, Helen MacEwan tells of her journey of discovery into the history of a vanished quarter of Brussels and her quest to seek out fellow Brontë enthusiasts - a quest that leads to the formation of a literary society, the Brussels Brontë Group. 'Down the Belliard Steps' describes the people she encounters and the adventures she has along the way. We meet an Heger descendant, learn about the re-discovery of a lost Brontë 'devoir' (one of the Brontës' 40 extant French essays written under Heger's direction) and search in Brussels cemeteries for the tomb of a friend of the Brontës who died in a Brussels school. We meet researchers and people inspired creatively by the Brontës. We delve into what it is that draws so many people, from all walks of life, to feel an affinity with members of the world's most famous literary family. Today, the Brussels Brontë Group is a flourishing, multinational literary community, promoting interest in the Brontës through talks, guided walks and reading groups. 'Down the Belliard Steps', crammed with information and anecdotes about Charlotte and Emily's time in the Belgian capital, is a light-hearted but intensely personal and romantic account of the Group's genesis and flowering. The book is a 'must-read' for literary enthusiasts and if any encouragement were needed to visit the Brontës' Brussels, it would be difficult to find anything more seductive than this enchanting narrative.

The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece

Author : John Pfordresher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393248887
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book The Secret History of Jane Eyre: How Charlotte Brontë Wrote Her Masterpiece written by John Pfordresher and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising hidden history behind Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Why did Charlotte Brontë go to such great lengths on the publication of her acclaimed, best-selling novel, Jane Eyre, to conceal its authorship from her family, close friends, and the press? In The Secret History of Jane Eyre, John Pfordresher tells the enthralling story of Brontë’s compulsion to write her masterpiece and why she then turned around and vehemently disavowed it. Few people know how quickly Brontë composed Jane Eyre. Nor do many know that she wrote it during a devastating and anxious period in her life. Thwarted in her passionate, secret, and forbidden love for a married man, she found herself living in a home suddenly imperiled by the fact that her father, a minister, the sole support of the family, was on the brink of blindness. After his hasty operation, as she nursed him in an isolated apartment kept dark to help him heal his eyes, Brontë began writing Jane Eyre, an invigorating romance that, despite her own fears and sorrows, gives voice to a powerfully rebellious and ultimately optimistic woman’s spirit. The Secret History of Jane Eyre expands our understanding of both Jane Eyre and the inner life of its notoriously private author. Pfordresher connects the people Brontë knew and the events she lived to the characters and story in the novel, and he explores how her fecund imagination used her inner life to shape one of the world’s most popular novels. By aligning his insights into Brontë’s life with the timeless characters, harrowing plot, and forbidden romance of Jane Eyre, Pfordresher reveals the remarkable parallels between one of literature’s most beloved heroines and her passionate creator, and arrives at a new understanding of Brontë’s brilliant, immersive genius.

In Search of Anne Brontë

Author : Nick Holland
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750968699
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Anne Brontë written by Nick Holland and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Brontë, the youngest and most enigmatic of the Brontë sisters, remains a bestselling author nearly two centuries after her death. The brilliance of her two novels – Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – and her poetry belies the quiet, yet courageous girl who often lived in the shadows of her more celebrated sisters. Yet her writing was the most revolutionary of all the Brontës, pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable. This revealing new biography opens Anne's most private life to a new audience and shows the true nature of her relationship with her sister Charlotte.

The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë

Author : Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë written by Daphne Du Maurier and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursued by the twin demons of drink and madness, Branwell Bronte created a private world that was indeed infernal. As a bold and gifted child, his promise seemed boundless to the three adoring sisters over whom his rule was complete. But as an adult, the precocious flame of genius distorted and burned low. With neither the strength nor the resources to counter rejection, unable to sell his paintings or publish his books, Branwell became a spectre in the Bronte story, in pathetic contrast with the astonishing achievements of Charlotte, Emily and Anne. This is the biography of the shadowy figure of the "unknown" Bronte.

Anne Brontë

Author : Elizabeth Langland
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780389208662
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Anne Brontë written by Elizabeth Langland and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1989 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents electronic versions of works by English novelist Anne Bronte (1820-1849) as part of the Online Literature Library. Offers access to "Agnes Grey" and "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall."

The Madwoman in the Attic

Author : Sandra M. Gilbert
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300246722
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Madwoman in the Attic written by Sandra M. Gilbert and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. "Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World

Reader, I Married Him

Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008150591
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Reader, I Married Him written by Tracy Chevalier and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘This collection is stormy, romantic, strong – the Full Brontë’ The Times A collection of short stories celebrating Charlotte Brontë, published in the year of her bicentenary and stemming from the now immortal words from her great work Jane Eyre.

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Author : Charlotte Brontë
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell written by Charlotte Brontë and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victorian Women

Author : Joan Perkin
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814766255
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Women written by Joan Perkin and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reprint of a book first published in 1993 by John Murray, UK. Perkins (women's history, Northwestern U.) uses letters, memoirs, and other revealing, first-hand sources to describe the social conditions of women of all classes during the Victorian era. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Anny

Author : Henrietta Garnett
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446413675
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Anny written by Henrietta Garnett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Thackeray Ritchie, daughter of the author of Vanity Fair and step-aunt of Virginia Woolf, was also a fine writer. Based on new and original research, this enchanting and evocative memoir paints the world of Anny's intricate web of relations and friends: children's parties with the Dickens family, holidays with Julia Margaret Cameron and the Tennysons, intimate scenes with Browning in Rome and Ruskin on Lake Coniston. In addition we read about Anny's own inner life: her near-obsession with her father: William Makepeace Thackeray, her escape into writing, her startling marriage to her second cousin and her godson, and the story of her sister Minny's passionate marriage to Leslie Stephen. We also learn of Stephen's second wife, Julia Jackson, mother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Meticulously researched, this intimate story draws not only on a wealth of letters, journals, hitherto unpublished sketches and photographs, but also on family legends passed down to the author through four generations. Illuminating, comic and touching, Anny reads like a novel, presenting a unique portrait of the rich literary world that formed the bridge between the Victorians and Bloomsbury.

The Gypsy-bachelor of Manchester

Author : Felicia Bonaparte
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813913902
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book The Gypsy-bachelor of Manchester written by Felicia Bonaparte and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite feminist reassessments to the contrary, the conventional view that Elizabeth Gaskell personified the Victorian feminine ideal is still very much in place today. Challenging that view in an experimental biography, Felicia Bonaparte proposes that there lived in ""Mrs. Gaskell"" another, antithetical self, a daemonic double, that was not an angel in the house but instead a creature born to be a ""gypsy-bachelor."" Bonaparte does not dispute that ""Mrs. Gaskell"" did exist, but she suggests that Gaskell conceived her, as much as any fictional character, out of a desperate need produced by her childhood experience of rejection and abandonment, in order to gain the love of friends and family and the approval of the world. Gaskell herself, Bonaparte argues, told the story of her double in images encoded in her letters, fiction, and life. Using the methods of literary criticism for biographical ends, Bonaparte traces a pattern of these images, showing how a metaphor that may turn up as a figure of speech in one of Gaskell's letters may be embodied in a character in one of her short stories, dramatized in an incident or plot in one of her novels, and even actualized in an action or a relationship in her life. To reach the inner woman, Bonaparte claims, it is necessary to ""read"" Gaskell's letters, fiction, and life as a single poetic text. In addition to presenting a radically different interpretation both of Gaskell and of her literary work, Bonaparte's unique approach opens up interesting possibilities in a number of other areas: in the writing of biography, in the analysis of metaphor in the nineteenth-century novel, in the study of the relationship between literature and life, in the exploration of links between the inner and outer self, and in women's studies generally.