The Brontes Peter Lange also published by Thames &

also published by Thames & Hudson

Loeb has certainly risked (and suffered) ridicule

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The second volume opens with the two books of poems of other kinds that he issued

The Brontes Peter Lange also published by Thames &The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that imaginary created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists, and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family