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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880103
Author:Linda Simon

A LIFE OF EMILY BRONTE By Edward Chitham Basil Blackwell. 288 pp. $24.95 GEORGE ELIOT By Jennifer Uglow Pantheon. 273 pp. $15.95; paperback, $9.95

BOTH George Eliot and Emily Bronte pose challenges for the biographer, first, because of the apparent contradictions between the way they lived and the fiction they created; second, because for more than a century critics and biographers have so romanticized these writers that the bare facts of their lives have tended to become distorted. In these two new studies, Edward Chitham and Jennifer Uglow attempt to place their sometimes elusive ...

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