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Something for Brontë Fans

I read this book some months ago and have been meaning to mention it. A year or so ago (or was it two?) I read Wuthering Heights for the first time since college. I wrote about it briefly here–yes, it was only last year. Some time after that I ran across this book while browsing in the library and checked it out, mainly intending to get some idea of what those moors etc. looked like. It's a sort of pictorial biography of the Brontë family. The biography is brief, but if you don't know much about the Brontës, as I didn't, it's informative. And if you don't especially want to know all that much, as I also didn't, it's about the right amount. The pictures are a combination of modern and 19th century photos. 

Actually I suppose it's a book for people with a casual interest in the Brontës; real fans will already know all this, and have seen plenty of pictures. Anyway: it's out of print, but there seem to be plenty of inexpensive used copies around at places like Amazon and ABE, and at this UK dealer, to which I am linking because I lifted the image below from them.

LandscapeOfTheBrontes

Maclin Horton

19 responses to “Something for Brontë Fans”

  1. Grumpy

    I would say that I went to University near the Yorkshire Moors but Dek might rise up with an Arithmetical Demonstration that the Moors are a long way from Manchester

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  2. Paul

    Off topic, but I’ve just sent an unscheduled 52 authors by email.

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  3. Grumpy

    well done – I have re-read all three of EB White’s children’s books but so far I have not thought of anything to say about them.

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  4. Janet

    Well, I am in the process of writing a post for tomorrow which is a kind of follow-up to the Little House books, so if we have Paul’s after that and a couple of others that will give you time to think of something and we will be ready for another children’s author. I have a memoir of White and his wife if you would like it, although I’m not sure it could find you in time.
    AMDG

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  5. Grumpy

    No I’ll be on my way to Europe on the 24th so I won’t have time to read it, thanks. I’ve got to write the paper for the conference I’m attending in Budapest.

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  6. Janet

    Oh, I thought sure you would have finished that by now. 😉
    AMDG

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  7. Grumpy

    I just began forcing myself to start today. Today is day 1. I began.

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  8. Mac

    Wonderful, Paul. I’ll go check my email. So we’re about to have a period of plenty. I’ve been working on an author, expecting to need it next week. So we’re set for the next three weeks.

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  9. Grumpy

    If I can finish the Budapest paper by Sunday then I will write the EB White on the Monday.

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  10. Grumpy

    I mean next Sunday not tomorrow!

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  11. Janet

    Co-hoh! Co-hoh!
    AMDG

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  12. Grumpy

    at the moment my piece is a conversation with Janet in my mind

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  13. Janet

    Well, my piece is finished and I’m going to climb out of your mind go eat dinner.
    AMDG

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  14. Grumpy

    OK so stop telling me why magical realism is such a good idea then and listen up when I say that swans don’t write on slate boards

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  15. Janet

    Yeah, that’s what Chesterton would say.
    AMDG

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  16. Robert Gotcher

    O good. That gives me a chance to finish rereading Grammar of Assent so I can write my post on Newman in the next few weeks.

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  17. Robert Gotcher

    Someone ate the “h” on the “Oh” on the post above.

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  18. Rob G

    Books of this sort on authors seem to be a somewhat common thing among the Brits. I’ve got very similar books on Wordsworth and Hardy, and have seen them on Burns, Dickens, and Austen.

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  19. El Gaucho

    Last time you mentioned this book I found one quite cheap, used, online. It proudly sits in my office and I have looked through once or twice in expectation of re-reading Wuthering Heights one day. I would like a Hardy and Dickens one too!!

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