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The Brontes.(Brief article)(Book review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20060622
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The Brontes. Patricia Ingham. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]7.99. xx + 273 pages. ISBN 0-19-284035-5. This study, part of the Oxford World's Classics' 'Authors in Context' series, sets out to discuss the work not of one author but of three: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte. The Brontes may have lived in a small Yorkshire village but they led 'somewhat theatrical lives', described elsewhere as 'melodramatic' with 'early deaths, sudden success, alcoholism, adultery, unrequited and unrequitable love'. She argues that despite their isolation the three novelists were ...

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