The Brontë Myth Literature virtually imprisoned by her father’s

virtually imprisoned by her father’s demands

Northern writers

'There is no aspect of Victorian death that does not make it into Judith Flanders’s latest investigation into 19th-century life' - The Sunday Times'Flanders writes with sharp intelligence and first-class scholarly attention to detail' - The TelegraphIn Rites of Passage

she manages to transcend the social strictures of the nineteenth century

Hardback: 344 pages

The Brontë Myth Literature virtually imprisoned by her father’sBy Lucasta Miller Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing. These range from pious accounts in Victorian conduct books to Freudian pyschobiographies, from plays, films and ballets to tourist brochures and images on tea towels, from sensation seeking penny a liners to meticulous works of sober scholarship. Each generation has rewritten the Brontes to reflect changing attitudes towards the role of the woman