Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters
9 best books like Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters (Emily Brontë): The Professor, The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Caddie Woodlawn, The Courage of Sarah Noble, The Brontës: A Life in Letters, The Brontë Myth, Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life, Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York, The Cold Embrace
| Author | Charlotte Brontë |
| ISBN | 1582870950 |
The Professor was the first novel by Charlotte Brontë. It was originally written before Jane Eyre and rejected by many publishing houses, but was eventually published posthumously in 1857. The book is the story of a young man, William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual...
| 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...
| Author | Carol Ryrie Brink |
| ISBN | 1416940286 |
Caddie Woodlawn is a real adventurer. She'd rather hunt than sew and plow than bake, and tries to beat her brother's dares every chance she gets. Caddie is friends with Indians, who scare most of the neighbors -- neighbors who, like her mother and sisters, don't understand her at all. Caddie is brave,...
The Courage of Sarah Noble
| Author | Alice Dalgliesh |
| ISBN | 0689715404 |
In this Newbery Honor book classic, young Sarah learns how to be brave even when the world is strange and new.
In 1707, young Sarah Noble and her father traveled through the wilderness to build a new home for their family. “Keep up your courage, Sarah Noble,” her mother had said, but Sarah...
| 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...
| 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...
| 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,...
Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad, & Criminal in 19th-Century New York
| Author | Stacy Horn |
| ISBN | 1616205768 |
Today it is known as Roosevelt Island. In 1828, when New York City purchased this narrow, two-mile-long island in the East River, it was called Blackwell’s Island. There, over the next hundred years, the city would send its insane, indigent, sick, and criminal. Told through the gripping voices of...
| Author | Mary Elizabeth Braddon |
No sabía qué esperar de un relato tan corto, pero debo decir que la historia ha estado bien. Bien, sin más. ¿El problema? Bueno, así para empezar tuve la genial idea de escucharlo en audio-libro. Ajá, una idea brillante. En fin.
Dejando de lado mis dramas con el formato, la historia empieza...
