The Brontës: A Life in Letters

10 best books like The Brontës: A Life in Letters (Juliet Barker): Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Frost Hollow Hall, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading, The Brontë Myth, Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life, Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters, Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

Author	Quentin Bell
ISBN	0156935805

Virginia Woolf was the fiercely brainy and extremely posh girl I would have been far too shy to even dream of speaking to, had I been around then.

But, in an alternative slipstream of history, it turned out that I was alive at the time, and blow me down, there she was in the Smoke Room at the Old Butcher's...

Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels

Author	Deirdre Le Faye
ISBN	0711222789

With pictures galore, Le Faye gives a short bio of Jane Austen, some cultural background of her world, and runs through each of Austen's works. Also includes contemporary maps (i.e., from about 1805) of the English counties Jane either set her stories in or that she personally lived in.

Most...

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Author	Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN	0192838059

Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honor her friend. This edition collates all...

Frost Hollow Hall

Author	Emma Carroll
ISBN	0571295444

'The gates to Frost Hollow Hall loomed before us. They were great tall things, the ironwork all twisted leaves and queer-looking flowers. And they were very definitely shut.'

Tilly's heart sinks. Will's at the door of their cottage, daring her to come ice-skating up at Frost Hollow Hall. No...

Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

Author	Lucy Mangan
ISBN	0224098853

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.

She was whisked away to Narnia – and Kirrin Island – and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens...

The Brontë Myth

Author	Lucasta Miller
ISBN	1400078350

Following the Brontë sisters through their many reincarnations at the hands of biographers, Lucasta Miller reveals as much about the impossible art of biography as she does about the Brontës themselves. Their first biographer, Mrs Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one...

Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life

Author	Julia Briggs
ISBN	0156032295

Virginia Woolf is one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century literature. She was original, passionate, vivid, dedicated to her art. Yet most writing about her still revolves around her social life and the Bloomsbury set. 
 
In this fresh, absorbing book, Julia Briggs puts...

Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life

Author	Lyndall Gordon
ISBN	0393314480

This critically acclaimed portrait of Charlotte Brontë looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, to reveal a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Drawing on Brontë's unpublished letters, journals,...

Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters

Author

Emily Brontë

"In this collection of their poetry, published under gender-concealing pseudonyms, we get an intimate glimpse of their fears, hopes, faith, and desires." — Haunted Library
"This collection is not only for fans of the Brontë Sisters and classic rhyming poetry but also for readers that crave...

Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life

Author	Samantha Ellis
ISBN	1784740217

Anne Brontë is the forgotten Brontë sister, overshadowed by her older siblings -- virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, virginal, sweet, stoic, selfless, Anne. The less talented Brontë, the other Brontë.

Or that's what Samantha Ellis,...

Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

Author

Lucy Worsley

Who was Queen Victoria? A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black? Or a passionate young princess, a romantic heroine with a love of dancing? There is also a third Victoria - a woman who was also a remarkably successful queen, one who invented a new role for the monarchy....