Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life

8 best books like Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (Lyndall Gordon): The French Lieutenant's Woman, No One Here Gets Out Alive, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, The Brontës: A Life in Letters, The Brontë Myth, Mary Shelley, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters, The House of Mitford

The French Lieutenant's Woman

Author	John Fowles
ISBN	0099478331

The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay..."the largest bite from the underside of England's out-stretched southwestern leg." The major characters in the love-intrigue triangle are Charles Smithson, 32, a gentleman of independent means & vaguely scientific bent; his fiancée,...

No One Here Gets Out Alive

Author	Danny Sugerman
ISBN	0446697338

Here is Jim Morrison in all his complexity-singer, philosopher, poet, delinquent-the brilliant, charismatic, and obsessed seeker who rejected authority in any form, the explorer who probed "the bounds of reality to see what would happen..." Seven years in the writing, this definitive biography...

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...

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...

Mary Shelley

Author	Miranda Seymour
ISBN	0802117023

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Mary Shelley has been called "a harrowing life, wonderfully retold" (The Washington Post). This "splendid biography" (The New Yorker) gracefully moves through the dramatic life of the woman behind history's most legendary...

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...

The House of Mitford

Author	Jonathan Guinness
ISBN	0753818035

The classic story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary families.

Among the six daughters and one son born to David, second Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney were Nancy, the novelist and historian; Diana, who married fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley; Unity, friend of Hitler;...