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Fifteen Wild Decembers , by Karen Powell, is the story of the Brontë family with Emily as the first-person narrator. I've read a lot of ...

Patrick Brontë, father of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, et al, remembered his Irish father working in fields, so poor that he had to suck on a...

I read the chapter on The Life of Charlotte Brontë in the Uglow bio after I read Gaskell's bio of Charlotte, and I'm glad I did beca...

Gaskell quotes often from Charlotte’s letters. Here is one of my very favorite passages: For my part, I am free to walk on the moors; but w...