The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë

Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronte family
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
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.

The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë

Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316253650
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Bronte's Mistress

Author: Finola Austin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 198213724X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
“[A] meticulously researched debut novel…In a word? Juicy.” —O, The Oprah Magazine The scandalous historical love affair between Lydia Robinson and Branwell Brontë, brother to novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, gives voice to the woman who allegedly brought down one of literature’s most famous families. Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson has tragically lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more. All of that changes with the arrival of her son’s tutor, Branwell Brontë, brother of her daughters’ governess, Miss Anne Brontë and those other writerly sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Branwell has his own demons to contend with—including living up to the ideals of his intelligent family—but his presence is a breath of fresh air for Lydia. Handsome, passionate, and uninhibited by social conventions, he’s also twenty-five to her forty-three. A love of poetry, music, and theatre bring mistress and tutor together, and Branwell’s colorful tales of his sisters’ imaginative worlds form the backdrop for seduction. But their new passion comes with consequences. As Branwell’s inner turmoil rises to the surface, his behavior grows erratic, and whispers of their romantic relationship spout from Lydia’s servants’ lips, reaching all three Brontë sisters. Soon, it falls on Mrs. Robinson to save not just her reputation, but her way of life, before those clever girls reveal all her secrets in their novels. Unfortunately, she might be too late.

Daphne

Author: Justine Picardie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608196011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
Daphne is a marvelous story of literary fascination and possession; of stolen manuscripts and forged signatures; of love lost, and love found; of the way into imaginary worlds, and the way out again. The book is written in three entwined parts, which follow Daphne du Maurier herself, the beautiful, tomboyish, passionate author of the enormously popular Gothic novel Rebecca; John Alexander Symington, eminent editor and curator of the Brontës' manuscripts, who by 1957 had been dismissed from the Brontë Parsonage Museum in disgrace after being accused of stealing and forging Brontë manuscripts and who became Daphne's correspondent; and a nameless modern researcher on the trail of Daphne, Rebecca, Alexander Symington, and the Brontës.

The Infernal World of Branwell Brontë

Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bronte family
Languages : en
Pages : 272

The Infernal World Of Branwell Bronte

Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1405519274
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA 'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ' . . . she is unravelling a long distorted mystery' KIRKUS REVIEWS 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. Daphne du Maurier concentrates all her biographer's skill on the shadowy figure of Branwell Bronte. No reader could fail to be intensely moved by Branwell's final retreat into laudanum, alcohol and death.

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description

The Brontës in Context

Author: Marianne Thormählen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761867
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
Crammed with information, The Brontës in Context shows how the Brontës' fiction interacts with the spirit of the time.

The King's General

Author: Daphne Du Maurier
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402217080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
"Daphne du Maurier has no equal." Sunday Telegraph As civil war rages across England, the weak prove their courage and the privileged become traitors

The Brontë Myth

Author: Lucasta Miller
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780224037457
Category : Haworth (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 320

Book Description
"This book has as its subject the manipulation of a reputation." "Its starting point is Charlotte Bronte's attempt to manage her own and her sisters' public image in the face of Victorian prejudice against their passionate novels. Their first biographer, Mrs. Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one of the great legends of the nineteenth century, a dramatic tale of three lonely sisters playing out their tragic destiny on top of a windswept moor. Lucasta Miller reveals where this image came from and how it took such a hold on the popular imagination." "Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing."