The Young Brontes: Charlotte and Emily, Branwell and Anne

Author:
Mary Louise Jarden
Illustrator:
Helen Sewell
Publication:
1938 by Viking Press Inc
Genre:
Biographical Fiction, Fiction
Pages:
279
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After years of reading everything she could find about the Brontes, Mary Louise Jarden planned a book about them. When it was finished she felt she had to visit their home before she would be satisfied with her work. She went to Haworth, trudged the cobbled streets, and talked to people who lived there and were almost as interested in the Brontes as she was herself. She visited the Brontes' home and wandered over the gray and purple moor, seeing and feeling for herself in the country of Charlotte and Emily, Branwell and Anne.
Weeks later, on her way home, she put aside the manuscript she had completed and started in anew on the story of The Young Brontes.
She has reconstructed their childhood, not as a dry biographical study, but as a story rich in characters and incidents—a story of children growing up, of their home and their games, of their thoughts and dreams, that brings them to glowing life in these pages.
In telling of the years that fed and formed the genius of the four Brontes, she mentions the great names, the political disputes, and the labor troubles of those days, not in detail, but as if she had lived there and then, making an unforgettable picture of England in 1825.
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