A day to remember: the Brussels Brontë Group meets.Mapping the Brussels of the Brontës: The cultural. Charlotte’s task was not made easierīy the fact that while she wished to present her sisters in a favourable lightĪnd was a great admirer of Emily’s poetry, she herself shared readers’ Intended to refute accusations of ‘coarseness’ both in Wuthering Heights and in Anne’s second novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The Brontë Myth gives vigorous new life to our understanding of the novelists and their culture and Lucasta Miller reveals as much about the impossible art of biography as she does about the Brontës themselves. Her first book, The Bront Myth (Cape, 2001 Knopf. Only revealed her sisters’ true names and gender but presented a view of them Dr Lucasta Miller is a critic and life-writer, specialising in nineteenth-century literary history. The writers hitherto known to the public only as Ellis and Acton Bell and a Manipulated view of both Emily and Anne, as editor of an 1850 edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey. Who first presented a highly selective and, many would argue, deliberately After her sisters’ deaths, it was Charlotte Showed, the person responsible for the earliest beginnings of the ‘Brontë myth’ This is generally assumed to be in Mrs Gaskell’s Life of Charlotte Brontë, but as Lucasta Her lively and relaxed talk, Lucasta focused in particular on the origins of
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