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The Reading Room
The Bronte Sisters
Read reviews and buy books written by Victorian authors or about the Victorian era and more... Click a book cover or title for more information. Links are in purple. If you cannot find what you are looking for here, try the Amazon links at the bottom of the page.
Charlotte Bronte
| Jane Eyre Price: £1.00 "A story of passionate love, travail and final triumph. The relationship between the heroine and Mr Rochester is only one episode, albeit the most important, in a detailed fictional autobiography in which the author transmuted her own experience into high art." Jane Eyre was my first book by a Bronte and is still my favourite. |
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| Villette Price: £1.00 "Left by harrowing circumstances to fend for herself in the great capital of a foreign country, Lucy Snowe, the narrator and heroine of "Villette", achieves by degrees an authentic independence from both outer necessity and inward grief." |
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| Shirley Price: £1.00 "Set in Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars, this novel articulates the social realities of economic hardship, the Luddite riots, dissatisfaction with the Government and an inadequate Church. Moore, a mill owner who ignores the suffering of his workers, affects the lives of Caroline and Shirley." |
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| The Professor Price: £1.00 "The first and least known of Charlotte Bronte's novels. It was one of the works by which the Bronte sisters hoped to achieve the status of published novelists, but it failed to find a publisher either then or during the author's lifetime. The novel was finally published by her widowed husband." |
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Emily Bronte
| Wuthering Heights Price: £1.00 "The saga of two Yorkshire families in the remote Pennine Hills. The book has been interpreted as an historical romance, a ghostly thriller, a psychological love-story, a religious allegory and a nature poem. This is the author's only novel." |
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| Complete Poems: Emily Bronte By Emily Bronte, Janet Gezari (Editor) Price: £7.19 "This volume constitutes the first major edition of Emily Brontė's complete poems to appear for half a century." |
Anne Bronte
| Agnes Grey Price: £1.00 "This novel is a trenchant expose of the frequently isolated, intellectually stagnant and emotionally-starved conditions under which many governesses worked in the mid-19th century. It is a personal work, written from the author's own experience." |
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| The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Price: £1.00 "Anne Bronte's portrait of a country community is contrasted with an almost gothic mystery. Helen Huntingdon, having endured too many "revolting scenes", leaves her dissolute husband to earn her own living and rescue her son from his influence." |
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