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The Brontes.(Brief Article)
From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19950304
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THE person chiefly responsible for the received Bronte legend is Elizabeth Gaskell. Her "Life of Charlotte Bronte", which Juliet Barker acknowledges "set a new standard in literary biography and is still widely read", was published in 1857, two years after her subject's death, and it has been the main authority on the life of the Bronte family ever since.
In a revisionist family history*, Miss Barker, who was for six years curator of the Bronte Parsonage Museum, is determined to set the record straight. Haworth in West Yorkshire, where the Bronte family lived and died, was not, ...
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