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COOKING UP A COUPLE OF ALTERNATE REALITIES
From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20050320
Author:Katharine A. Powers
We don't usually seat Charlotte Bronte and Betty Crocker together in our thoughts. Still, the public images of both women were ever- changing creations of manipulation and wishful thinking, and both underwent inversions: Charlotte, the real person, was transformed into fiction; Betty, the fictional one, set up as real. This pair came together as I read, back to back, "The Bronte Myth," by Lucasta Miller (Anchor, paperback, $15), and "Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food," by Susan Marks (Simon & Schuster, $23). The only biography of any Bronte I ...
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