Volume 18, Number 8 · May 4, 1972
Working Girls: The Brontës
By Elizabeth Hardwick
Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of a Genius
by Winifred Gérin
Oxford, 634 pp., $15.00
Emily Brontë
by Winifred Gérin
Oxford, 290 pp., $9.95
The careers of the three Brontë sisters—Anne, Charlotte, and Emily—conferred a sort of perpetuity upon the whole family. The father's eccentricities, once brought under scrutiny by the fame of the daughters, proved to be rich enough in detail to provide a good store of anecdote. There is, as with all of the family, always some question about what was truth and what fancy.
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