The Brontë Myth

8 best books like The Brontë Myth (Lucasta Miller): The Life of Charlotte Brontë, The Brontës: A Life in Letters, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories, The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace, Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters, Notes from a Young Black Chef, House of Women

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...

The Brontës: A Life in Letters

Author	Juliet Barker
ISBN	0879518383

Barker's selection of letters reveals the authentic voices of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, as well as their brother, Branwell, and father, Reverend Patrick Bronte. Charlotte was a letter-writer of supreme ability, ranging from facetious notes and intimate gossip to artfully composed pages of literary...

Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories

Author	Jenny Uglow
ISBN	0374147515

Winner of the Portico Prize
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. This biography traces Elizabeth's...

The Betsy-Tacy Companion: A Biography of Maud Hart Lovelace

Author	Sharla Scannell Whalen
ISBN	0963078305

Well. I'm certainly not surprised that I LOVED this book. It was five hundred pages of details and visits about "old friends" of mine, about whom I read in the Betsy-Tacy books. Since the books so closely paralleled MHL's own life, author Sharla Scannell Whalen pointed out the similarities and differences...

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 Drawing on Brontë's unpublished letters, journals,...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...

Notes from a Young Black Chef

Author	Kwame Onwuachi
ISBN	1524732621

A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree

By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants...

House of Women

Author

Sophie Goldstein

In this graphic novel, science fiction meets psychosexual drama when four women try to bring “civilization” to the natives of a remote planet on the fringes of the known universe. Something dark is growing in Mopu. The only question is whether the danger that will undo the women’s delicate camaraderie...