The Brontes: A Life in Letters

London: Little,Brown, 2016 9781408708316. Hardcover. First Edition thus. First Printing. Complete numberline. VG/VG.. Very slight nick at top of spine. DW is intact and NOT price-clipped but there is a slight repair to top of DW on spine and back is slightly soiled. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 418 pages plus 34 b/w photos and xxxix pages of introduction, chronology etc. In the much- anticipated follow-up to the landmark biography "The Brontes", Juliet Barker uses her unrivaled knowledge of the Bronte family, including newly discovered letters and manuscripts, to create an absorbing and entertaining book that is as original, compelling, and bold as the Bronte family itself. The Brontë story has been written many times but rarely as compellingly as by the Brontës themselves. In this selection of letters and autobiographical fragments we hear the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, their brother, Branwell, and their father, the Reverend Patrick Brontë. We share in their progress over the years: the exuberant childhood, absorbed in wild, imaginative games; the years of striving to find publishers etc.