The Clue to the Brontes

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

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

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'.