'An award-winning biography dispelling the myths and misconceptions around England's foremost literary family.'.

This edition is updated with new material. '

'This classic tore down the myths around the Brontes when it was published in 1994.

Including newly discovered poems and letters by Patrick, Emily and Anne it is an extensively researched and authoritative book that will compell you to view the Brontes differently.

'Quashing the myths that surround the Brontes ehile revealing dramatic, fascinating new information about them is a first-class biography.

'A gripping documentary chronicle of this extraordinary brilliant and insular family'.

Juliet Barker has laid her brilliant selection before the reader in chronological order, explaining any significant gaps in her story and introducing new friends and acquaintances.

'Letters like these allow the reader a fleeting intimacy with another’s life.but Barker combines them magnificently, getting closer than anyone to the sound of everyday life at Haworth’' It is not easy to hold all the voices together. 'By her careful excerpting and excellent narrative insertions, Juliet Barker reprises the extraordinary achievement of her The Brontes.This book is alive with voices, affectionate, witty, sorrowful, fantastical, spiritual, mischievous and full of grief' Barker has made a massive contribution to Brontë scholarship' It is indispensable to understanding them, their world, their uniqueness. Anyone fascinated by the Brontës cannot fail to read this book. 'This landmark study of the Brontës not only breaks new ground in its depiction of the life and times of the legendary family, but reads with all the pulse and throb of a novel.It is very long and very thorough, a brilliant book which shows great understanding of the sisters'ĭenis Healey, Pick of the Year 1995, The Sunday Times 'the most comprehensive study yet written.Barker has established what must now be the definitive Brontë chronology so convincingly that it is hard to imagine it ever being surpassed’'

'The Brontës is an outstanding achievement, a magnificent portrait which not only contains a wealth of important new material, but is also a delight to read.

'a monumental book: patient, thoughtful, sustained and bound to become indispensable'Īndrew Motion, The Times Literary Supplement.

for those with a passion for the Brontës, or for Victoriana, or for sheer wealth of historical minutiae, it is a stupendous read'

'As a work of scholarship it is brilliant.

The Brontës is a magnificent achievement: the finest biography I have read for years'

'It reads so entertainingly that sometimes I felt that the author’s long communion with Charlotte had let her absorb exactly the same spirit.

The Brontës by Juliet Barker