Branwell Brontë's Creation

Forrest Text publishes a new fictionalized biography of Branwell Brontë written by Wendy Louise Bardsley.

Branwell Brontë's Creation
by Wendy Louise Bardsley

• Paperback: 222 pages
• Publisher: Forrest Text (29 Oct 2007)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 095507407X
• ISBN-13: 978-0955074073
• Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 14 x 1.4 cm

Book Description
In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë tells the story of a governess rebelling against the cold place society has marked out for her. In Branwell Brontë's Creation, Wendy Bardsley tells the tale of Charlotte's brother, Branwell, who likewise inhabited a cold place, rebelled and suffered for it. Charming, tormented, brilliant, Branwell came to be dismissed by many as a wastrel. It is a story based on truth, brilliantly fictionalised. Branwell, in loving Milly, loves not wisely but well. She cannot begin to enter into the complexity of his real life, and becomes increasingly a kind of fiction to him, yet it is a deep and painful love. A moving, lyrical, important novel, set in Broughton-in-Furness and the bleak but magical Yorkshire of the 19th century.

From the Back Cover
A vivid and evocative portrait of the lost Brontë brother, a lyrical account of the family, landscape and era that made this tormented man what he was, conspire to make a magical novel. Branwell talks, suffers, loves - the sisters fret, the moor lives and breathes - we believe every word of it - and rightly so. Poet Bardsley has done her research, come up with fresh and convincing insights into Branwell's short, tragic life, and transmuted it into an admirable piece of literature. (Fay Weldon)

About the Author
Wendy Louise Bardsley has worked as a teacher in schools, colleges and universities, and is also a noted poet and anthologist as well as a writer of books for education. Her Brontë anthology, An Enduring Flame, with poems from around the world, and photographs by Simon Warner, was greeted with acclaim.
Branwell Brontë's Creation is her second novel.

An excerpt can be read here.

Categories: Books, Branwell Brontë, Fiction