The three Bront??? sisters - Anne, Charlotte and Emily - moved to Haworth Parsonage as children in 1820. It was there, on the edge of the dramatic landscape of the Yorkshire Moors, that they produced some of the most memorable, influential and best-loved novels in the English language. Ann Dinsdale paints a detailed picture of everyday life at Haworth in the 1840s, recounting the Bront??? family history and describing the local village and surrounding countryside. She ...
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The three Bront??? sisters - Anne, Charlotte and Emily - moved to Haworth Parsonage as children in 1820. It was there, on the edge of the dramatic landscape of the Yorkshire Moors, that they produced some of the most memorable, influential and best-loved novels in the English language. Ann Dinsdale paints a detailed picture of everyday life at Haworth in the 1840s, recounting the Bront??? family history and describing the local village and surrounding countryside. She goes on to consider the Bront??? s' poetry and novels in the context of their socio-historic background. This book provides fascinating insight into the lives of the authors of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights and will be a must for both literature students and Bront??? admirers. It is illustrated with numerous rarely seen images from the Haworth archives, including drawings by Charlotte and Emily, together with evocative pictures by local photographer Simon Warner.
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What a lovely book. I suppose this is a sort of coffee table book. I seem to have a life long weakness for coffee table books.
It has the most wonderful photographs, some new and some old black-n-whites of the town, the homes, the people, even their sketches and the manuscripts. A day may go by before you turn a page because there is so much to see on each page. I feel like I have really been to Haworth myself, poking around the kitchen, sitting in the family's chairs and looking out the very same windows that Emily or Charlotte may have.
This book is most thorough, covering not only the family and the home but also the servants, friends and neighbors-with photos of all. This is the kind of book that makes a great gift that any Bronte fan would really really love to get.
