![]() ![]() "The play of the Islanders was formed in December 1827 in the following maner. ![]() La leyenda literaria de los Brontë empezó con un juego de chicos. Branwell, the adored brother, was a talented poet who provided much of Charlotte's inspiration. Anne, widely regarded as the gentlest of the sisters, had a core of steel and was a more daring and revolutionary author than Charlotte. Emily was so psychologically and physically dependent on her fantasy life that she could not survive in the outside world. Charlotte, ruthlessly self-willed, ran roughshod over her sisters and went so far as to alter or destroy their manuscripts when she disapproved. The father, Patrick, was not, as commonly believed, the cold patriarch of a family of victims. Based on eleven years of research among newly discovered letters by every member of the family, original manuscripts, and the newspapers of that time, it gives a new and fuller picture of the Brontes' lives from beginning to end and, in the process, demolishes many myths. ![]() This landmark book is the first definitive history of this fascinating family. But beyond these familiar details, the Brontes' story has remained largely obscure. ![]() The tragic story of the Bronte family is well known, replete with a half-mad father, a wastrel of a brother, and three uniquely gifted - and oppressed - sisters. ![]()
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