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Charlotte and Emily Brontë

Literary Lives

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Tom Winnifrith

    1. University of Warwick, UK

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  2. Edward Chitham

    1. The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Life

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 1-12

  3. Origins

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 13-27

  4. Religion

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 28-39

  5. Schooling

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 40-52

  6. Reading

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 53-67

  7. Teaching

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 68-82

  8. Belgium

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 83-95

  9. Poems

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 96-108

  10. Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 109-118

  11. Shirley and Villette

    • Tom Winnifrith, Edward Chitham
    Pages 119-133

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 134-144
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About this book

This new book on the Brontes concentrates on the way in which the literary interests and expressions of Charlotte and Emily were built up. It makes use of recent research into background and reading matter to investigate the development of the authors' poetry and novels.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Tom Winnifrith

  • The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton, UK

    Edward Chitham

About the authors

TOM WINNIFRITH is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Warwick and Director of the Centre for Research in the European Humanities. His many previous books include The Brontës and their Background, Brontë Facts and Brontë Problems (with Edward Chitham), Aspects of the Epic, Greece Old and New, Nineteen Eighty Four and All's Well? (with William Whitehead) and A New Life of Charlotte Brontë.

EDWARD CHITHAM is a part-time Lecturer for the Open University. His previous publications include The Black Country, Ghost in the Water (a children's novel) and several books on the Brontës, including The Brontës' Irish Background, The Poems of Anne Brontë and Brontë Facts and Brontë Problems (with Tom Winnifrith).

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