The Clue to the Brontës

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-00325-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1948, The Clue to the Brontës was written in part as response to a previous biography of Charlotte Brontë by Mrs Gaskell. The author argues that Gaskell's biography gets it all wrong. Harrison draws connections between Patrick Brontë and John Wesley. She finds Gaskell paid too much attention to gossip and did not verify her facts.

The influence of John Wesley and the revival of evangelical religion is seen as a force in the Romantic Movement's impact on the English novel. The same influence is here seen to be at work in the writings of the Brontës, including those of their father Patrick.

Zielgruppe

Adult education, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, G. Elsie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Acknowledgement. 1. Irish Cabin 2. Irish Mansion 3. All Saints 4. Woodhouse Grove 5. Maria Branwell 6. Gay Go Up Means Gay Go Down 7. Miss Branwell 8. Maria 9. Nursery of Genius 10. Charlotte 11. Branwell 12. Marvellous 13. Luddenden Foot 14. William Weightman 15. Aunt’s Death 16. The Castaway 17. Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell 18. Jane Eyre 19. Wuthering Heights 20. Trilogy of Death 21. Shirley 22. Love and Death 23. Mrs Gaskell 24. Sole Survivor. References. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

G. Elsie Harrison (1886–1964) was trained in the Manchester History School under T. F. Tout and made her own distinctive contribution to Methodist biography and history. She was once described as 'one of our personalities, a sort of Lady Violet Bonham Carter of Methodism, gifted, eloquent, enthusiastic, a passionate partisan'.