| A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Bronte Contributor(s): Frank, Katherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0449906612 ISBN-13: 9780449906613 Publisher: Ballantine Books OUR PRICE: $18.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1992 Annotation: The most gifted of her famous, troubled family, Emily Bronte has too often been portrayed in "storm-tossed, sentimental" biographies, according to Katherine Frank. Now Frank presents a startling new interpretation: pledged to self-denial and social isolation, Emily starved herself, contributing to her wild imagination. 16-page insert. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Women - Biography & Autobiography | Historical |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 91072894 |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.96" W x 8.53" (0.96 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "A fine retelling of the Bront s' story . . . It does much to throw light on the achievement of one of the greatest geniuses of nineteenth-century literature."--The New York Times Book Review In this compelling, beautifully written book, Emily Bront emerges for the first time in the full complexity of her nature--the most gifted and intelligent of the Bront sisters, and also the most passionate, willful, and self-destructive. Katherine Frank, whose biography of Mary Kingsley won wide critical acclaim, brings a novelist's dramatic flair and a brilliant gift for analysis to this bold reinterpretation of Emily Bront 's life: the negligence of her sickly father, her affliction with anorexia, the fierce need to rebel that produced Wuthering Heights and her magnificent poetry. Probing the depths of Emily Bront 's dark nature as no other biographer has done, Frank also sheds new light on her special place in her gifted, doomed family and her consuming relationships with Charlotte and her alcoholic brother, Branwell. A Chainless Soul paints an intimate, vivid, and deeply affecting portrait of one of the greatest, and most misunderstood, artists of nineteenth-century fiction. |