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This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the
literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were
built up. It makes use of recent research into background and
reading matter to investigate the development of the authors'
poetry and novels.
This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the
literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were
built up. It makes use of recent research into background and
reading matter to investigate the development of the authors'
poetry and novels.
Biographical material on Emily Bronte is scarce. In the past,
biographers have taken this as an excuse to portray intuition as
fact, creating a confused and inaccurate image of the author who
wrote Wuthering Heights. In A Life of Emily Bronte, Edward Chitham
rejects wholeheartedly the temptation to validate speculation. He
describes his book as an 'investigative biography', delving into
Emily's childhood, her relationships with her family, her father's
Irish roots, and the influences conveyed by friends and
acquaintances. Using material neglected by other biographers,
Chitham makes an illuminating and scholarly study of the events and
characters that shaped Emily's inspiration; a puzzle that has
confounded many and made her, up to this point, an enigmatic and
misrepresented figure.
The Irish heritage of the Bronte family has long been overlooked,
partly because both Charlotte and her father Patrick did their very
best to ensure that this was the case and partly because there was
a strong understanding at the end of the nineteenth century that
the Brontes were Yorkshire regional novelists. Yet their ideas and
attitudes, and perhaps even their storylines, can be traced to
Ireland. This book, which develops ideas originally published in
The Brontes' Irish Heritage in 1986, sets the record straight. By
re-evaluating the sources available, it traces Patrick's Irish
ancestry and shows how it prevented him from achieving his
ambitions; it shows how that heritage influenced his children's
writings, particularly Emily; and it sheds further light on the
genesis of Wuthering Heights.
This book provides a rounded account of the history of Dudley,
starting before the Norman Conquest. It traces the development of
industry in the town, and shows how the lack of utilities,
including water, hampered the nineteenth-century town and forced a
section of the population into desperate poverty. Major historical
treasures remain from this era, however, giving the opportunity for
the growth of tourism in the present. The Story of Dudley, compiled
by an expert in the area's history, weaves these events together
into an accessible, interesting and in-depth history of the town
that is sure to delight residents and visitors alike.
The Poems of Emily Brontë is the first edition to appear with full scholarly apparatus, and to preserve the writer's original (sometimes unorthodox) presentation and revisions. With no manuscript of Wuthering Heights extant, this edition of the often under-valued poetry gives the reader the rare chance of seeing the writer's creative mind at work. Recreating the literary context of the poems, this edition also takes into account recent critical insights.
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