Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
The Bronts
The Bronts: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family | Juliet Barker
In a revised and updated edition, the real story of the Bront sisters, by distinguished scholar and historian Juliet Barker The story of the tragic Bront family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wildly romantic Emily, unrequited Anne, and poor Charlotte. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely thatimaginarycreated by amateur biographers like Elizabeth Gaskell who were primarily novelists and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. Juliet Barkers landmark book is the first definitive history of the Bronts. It demolishes the myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compellingbut true. Based on firsthand research among all the Bront manuscripts and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bront biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. The Bronts is a revolutionary picture of the worlds favorite literary family.
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
blurb
LeahBergen
post image

@Book_Fiend_Melissa ! Thank you so much for this beautiful handmade Christmas card and the adorable Brontë sisters bookmarks. I don‘t know, but you seem to know me well. ??

Lots of love and Happy Holidays to you, sweet friend! ??

vivastory Do you have the Penguin Clothbound Classics Brontë set? 4y
LeahBergen @vivastory I don‘t! Do you? I have a bit of a mishmash of all the Brontë novels. 4y
Cathythoughts So lovely 💕 4y
See All 10 Comments
Gissy So cute those bookmarks!😱❤️💚❤️💚 4y
batsy Those bookmarks!! ❤️ 4y
MsMelissa Yay! I‘m so glad they actually arrived in time for Christmas 🎄 Wishing you and your family a very merry one 🥰 4y
vivastory I do have them. I recently found them for a really good price. I'll post pics this weekend 📚📚 4y
LeahBergen @Book_Fiend_Melissa I love them!! You‘re so thoughtful. 🥰🥰 4y
LeahBergen @vivastory I can‘t wait to see them! 4y
78 likes10 comments
blurb
Farrell01

Branwell, Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Brontë all had to move back in with their father as adults because they couldn't get/keep permanent employment. THE O.G. MILLENNIALS.

blurb
Farrell01

I'm an apathetic agnostic (don't know, don't care), but poor Patrick...I kind of *have* to hope there's a lovely afterlife, if just for this one guy.

(For those unfamiliar, Patrick Brontë was the father of *deep breath* Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, & Anne Brontë. He outlived his wife & all his children.)

blurb
LeahBergen
post image
Melissa_J Do you like the Brontë sisters, Leah? I can‘t tell ? 6y
rubyslippersreads 😍😍😍 6y
erzascarletbookgasm Wow, your Brontë shelf! ? 6y
See All 11 Comments
saresmoore It‘s official: you‘re the coolest. 6y
ValerieAndBooks Wow! Your collection continues to amaze me. 6y
batsy This collection makes me so happy! I knew you were going to do the Brontës for this 😁😘 6y
LeahBergen @Melissa_J Just a wee bit. 😆 6y
LeahBergen @batsy I‘m pretty predictable 😆 6y
RohitSawant 😍😍😍 6y
97 likes11 comments
blurb
ElenaBaer
post image

I didn‘t realize this was a chunker. I think I just got carried away ordering.

review
kathleenaflynn
post image
Pickpick

Not so much reading this book as entering into a long-term relationship with it!

DebinHawaii Hah! Love it! 🤣🤣 7y
mayusteapot Oof, this one's been a long-term resident on my shelf. Maybe I'll get into it... this year? 7y
16 likes2 comments
blurb
melissajayne
post image

A nice big book to settle into for a couple hours

18 likes4 stack adds
blurb
LeahBergen
post image

The coolest return address on any piece of mail EVER. 😍

ScorpioBookDreams I really want to visit there one day! 😍 7y
Pruzy Nice! Are you a member? Is that how you got the slick bookmark? 7y
LeahBergen @ScorpioBookDreams Oh, you MUST. ❤️ 7y
See All 9 Comments
LeahBergen @Pruzy Yes! I just became a member and the bookmark is part of the "welcome" package. ?? (edited) 7y
ferskner 😮 7y
TrishB Very cool 👍 7y
rubyslippersreads I may have to join. 7y
ValerieAndBooks How fun!! 7y
RohitSawant Oo, that's awesome! 7y
104 likes9 comments
blurb
LeahBergen
The Bronts: A Life in Letters | Juliet R. V. Barker
post image

Charlotte Bronte disses Jane Austen in a letter to George Henry Lewes (critic and partner of George Eliot). ?

"These observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run the risk" = my new Litsy tag line. ??

LeahBergen @shawnmooney You may need to preface your "bails" with this line, too. ? 7y
batsy That's a great line! Anyway, I love thinking about this. "Was Bronte right about Austen?" is the kind of thing that keeps me up at night ? 7y
shawnmooney If you can't say anything nice come sit by me! 😍 7y
See All 26 Comments
Kalalalatja Oh, the sassyness 😂 7y
Tsubame I looooooove it! 😁 7y
i.z.booknook Amazing!! 😱😂 7y
tpixie So interesting. Brontë vs Austin Hemingway vs Everyone! 7y
Izai.Amorim 😂😂 7y
ScorpioBookDreams Would you be able to do me a favour, please? I'd like the preorder goodies for When Dimple Met Rishi but they are only available in the US/Canada. Any chance you'd be willing to receive them and post them on? Don't worry if you can't though! Xxx 7y
drokka Le plus ça change, le plus ça reste le même. Im not sure glad is the right word, maybe interesting is better. I find interesting the writer jealousies have always existed. It's kind of nice to see how authors we sort of group together today, were far from viewing each other as equals in œuvre. 7y
readinginthedark There are a lot of good authors who underestimate Austen; it's pretty interesting. Virginia Woolf wrote a critique of her work, and a lot of what Woolf writes accomplishes similar things for the reader! But her writing style is completely different, and someone almost always dies. 7y
LeahBergen @ScorpioBookDreams Sure! I sent you a message on Goodreads. 7y
LeahBergen @batsy Right? And then I was thinking, "what would Austen think of Jane Eyre?!" ? 7y
LeahBergen @shawnmooney Yes!! 👏🏻👏🏻 7y
LeahBergen @tpixie Haha! Yes! 7y
LeahBergen @drokka It's fascinating, isn't it? 7y
andrew61 That is a wonderful quote. 7y
rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen @batsy She might consider it something Catherine Morland would enjoy. 😄 7y
Hobbinol I love that! Good one! 7y
tpixie @drokka c'est vrai! 7y
batsy @rubyslippersreads @LeahBergen They're so stylistically different it's fun to think about ☺️ Austen would have prob delivered a delicious backhanded compliment! 7y
LeahBergen @batsy Austen would have put her in one of her novels as one of her frumpy, hypochondriac comic characters. 😄 7y
batsy @LeahBergen Oh yes! 💚 7y
111 likes4 stack adds26 comments
blurb
ABookishLife
post image

They look exactly like I always pictured them! Loving the BBC's Bronte biopic "We Walk Invisible."

blurb
unabridgedchick
post image

December's literary house. Maybe my favorite yet. Hoping there's a 2017 calendar with new homes!

estellasrevenge Sooooo pretty! 8y
13 likes1 comment
blurb
sarahbetty4
post image

When you're walking home and go "WHAT is in this purse?!" and then oh yeah it's this monster

BookishFeminist 😂 sad but true. Love handing my bag off to someone who thinks I innocently don't have a giant tome with me at all times. 8y
3 likes1 comment
blurb
KVanRead
post image

#WCW The Brontë Sisters painted by their brother Bramwell (who included himself then painted that out leaving but a ghostly outline) have been on my walls since I picked up the poster at an exhibit in New York in the late 90's, so ya, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a fan girl : @BookishFeminist

BookBabe 😍👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 8y
LeahBergen ❤️❤️ 8y
ValerieAndBooks Wow, has there ever been any X-ray analysts that shows his image? Why did he paint himself out? 🤔 8y
See All 10 Comments
BookishFeminist ❤️❤️❤️ the Bronte sisters! 8y
ValerieAndBooks @KVanRead Interesting story! Seems like the poor guy was both literally and figuratively overshadowed. 8y
KVanRead @ValerieAndBooks yes, I think that's one of the things I like most about the picture. 8y
tpixie @KVanRead @ValerieAndBooks love the story behind the painting! Makes the painting special! 8y
KVanRead @tpixie yes, we book lovers like anything with a story behind it, don't we?😍 8y
tpixie @KVanRead - exactly! Always looking for the story. 😜 8y
25 likes1 stack add10 comments