Charlotte and Emily Bront Literary Lives [Paperback]

This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were built up. It makes use of recent research into background and reading matter to investigate the development of the authors' poetry and novels.Life - Origins - Religion - Schooling - Reading - Teaching - Belgium - Poems - Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - Shirley and Villette - Notes - IndexTOM WINNIFRITH is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick and Director of the Centre for Research in the European Humanities. His many previous books include The Bront?s and their Background, Bront? Facts and Bront? Problems (with Edward Chitham), Aspects of the Epic, Greece Old and New, Nineteen Eighty Four and All's Well? (with William Whitehead) and A New Life of Charlotte Bront?.

EDWARD CHITHAM is a part-time Lecturer for the Open University. His previous publications include The Black Country, Ghost in the Water (a children's novel) and several books on the Bront?s, including The Bront?s' Irish Background, The Poems of Anne Bront? and Bront? Facts and Bront? Problems (with Tom Winnifrith).