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Sisters doing it for themselves; Arts Editor Joe Riley on a kiss and tell look at a literary legacy.(Features)

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From: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20051014
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Byline: Joe Riley

THEY were the ultimate dysfunctional family: three literary sisters and a sex-mad, drug-raddled brother living high on the moors, their heads in the clouds, disdaining the social rigours of Victorian morality Even so, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte transformed the landscape of English literature, often inspired by the boozed-up excesses of Branwell, the failed son of the parsonage household.

Still fertile ground for a drama ...

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