The Bronte Girl

Download or read book The Brontë Girls written by Garry Kilworth and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Craster lives in complete isolation on the family farm - Their lives are modelled on the Brontes' parsonage at Haworth - Emily, who is almost fifteen , is fascinated by the outside world, but her curiosity changes the whole family's life__

Download or read book The Bronte Girl written by Miriam Halahmy and published by ZunTold. This book was released on 2024-03-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers who love YA historical fiction will fall in love with Kate Roper, a 15 year old girl from Haworth, West Yorkshire, who finds herself working at the Parsonage, home to Reverend Bronte and his four children, Bramwell, Charlotte, Emily and Anne. "I am just going to write because I cannot help it." Charlotte Brontë 'October 19th, 1846. Kate felt as though the date was etched upon her heart forever.' When Mother and her beloved twin brothers are taken by the Haworth 'miasma', Father drowns his sorrow in drink and younger sister Lizzie begins to run wild. It is left to Kate at only fifteen to keep her family out of the dreaded workhouse. She is offered a cleaning job at the Parsonage, home of Reverend Brontë, his son Branwell and the three Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Anne, and Emily. Kate harbours a secret; to write for the famous Blackwood Magazine, but poverty and gender are against her. Luke, a farmer's son, has dreams of being an engineer, and wants to marry Kate but believes writing stories is a waste of time. One day whilst repairing the fire in the Parsonage sitting room, Kate sees a small volume of Shakespeare on the shelf. She decides to borrow it, only to be caught by Charlotte Brontë. When Miss Charlotte discovers Kate's passion for books, a friendship begins to develop. Charlotte and her sister Anne fill Kate's head with ideas of equality between women and men. "Women feel just as men feel," declares Miss Charlotte. Kate confides in Charlotte that she writes and is encouraged to see her writing as more than just a dream. Kate also begins to spot clues that the Brontë sisters are writing novels. Then she meets Seth, an artist, on the moor with equally free ideas about women and men. Now Kate is faced with a dilemma. Marriage to the dependable Luke or a new independent life, influenced by Seth and his artist friends. The novel ends a year after it opens with Kate making the biggest decision of her life. Miriam Halahmy has written a novel which brings the Brontës alive for a new generation of readers. Themes of women's rights, the harsh realities of poverty and inequality are illuminated in uncluttered, beautiful character-driven storytelling and through it all shines the indomitable spirit of the human soul. In a world of increasing inequality and global attacks on women's rights, this is a novel for our time.

Download or read book A Girl Walks into a Book written by Miranda K Pennington and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How many times have you heard readers argue about which is better, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights? The works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne continue to provoke passionate fandom over a century after their deaths. Brontënthusiasts, as well as those of us who never made it further than those oft-cited classics, will devour Miranda Pennington's delightful literary memoir. Pennington, today a writer and teacher in New York, was a precocious reader. Her father gave her Jane Eyre at the age of 10, sparking what would become a lifelong devotion and multiple re-readings. She began to delve into the work and lives of the Brontë finding that the sisters were at times her lifeline, her sounding board, even her closest friends. In this charming, offbeat memoir, Pennington traces the development of the Brontëas women, as sisters, and as writers, as she recounts her own struggles to fit in as a bookish, introverted, bisexual woman. In the Brontëand their characters, Pennington finally finds the heroines she needs, and she becomes obsessed with their wisdom, courage, and fearlessness. Her obsession makes for an entirely absorbing and unique read. A Girl Walks Into a Book is a candid and emotional love affair that braids criticism, biography and literature into a quest that helps us understand the place of literature in our lives; how it affects and inspires us.

Download or read book The Bronte Sisters written by Charlotte Brontë and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the novels Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Download or read book Girl with a Pen written by Elisabeth Kyle and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Brontë Myth written by Lucasta Miller and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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."

Download or read book The Brontes written by Anne Brontë and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: