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BRONTES' REAL -LIFE DRAMAS REVEALED.
From: The Evening Standard (London, England)
Date: 20030318
Author:Hodgson, Jessica
Byline: JESSICA HODGSON
A MAJOR new TV film is set to reveal that the Bronte sisters had personal lives that rivalled any of their literary heroines.
The extraordinary writing career of the Victorian novelists, who wrote about suppressed passions and tortured love, took shape against a background of extramarital affairs and alcoholism, according to BBC1's In Search of the Brontes.
It gives a twist to the traditional costume drama with a film which lifts the lid on the domestic and sexual lives of the novelist sisters.
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte were regarded ...
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