Brontës Documentary

Just published this month:

Dictionary of Literary Biography:
Brontës Documentary
Volume 340
Published by Gale Cengage Learning
(Matthew J. Bruccoli (Director), Richard Layman (Director))

This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and scholars. Dictionary of Literary Biography provides reliable information in an easily comprehensible format, while placing writers in the larger perspective of literary history.

Dictionary of Literary Biography systematically presents career biographies and criticism of writers from all eras and all genres through volumes dedicated to specific types of literature and time periods.

* Published/Released: May 2008
* ISBN 13: 9780787681586
* ISBN 10: 078768158X
* $254.00

The complete table of contents and sample pages can be found here. The volume is structured like this:

Works by the Brontës.
Chronology of the Brontë Family.
Overview of the Brontë Family
A Family of Writers
Childhood and Cowan Bridge School
Juvenilia
The Brontës at Home and the Plan for a School
Impressions of the Brontës - Ellen Nussey
A First Publication
The Bells Make Themselves Known
Early Deaths and Lasting Fame
Branwell Brontë
Early Promise
Branwell and Lydia Robinson
"The Sudden Early Obscure Close"
Anne Brontë
Anne on her own
Agnes Grey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
"A Slow Dark March"
Emily Brontë
At Home in Haworth
Wuthering Heights
"A Hard, Short Conflict"
A New Edition of Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontë
At Miss Wooler's School
"For the Sake of Imaginative Pleasures": The Desire to be a Writer
"Trials and Crosses": Working as a Governess
Brussels and the Pensionnat Héger
Jane Eyre
Shirley
Villette
A Marriage of 276 Days
The Professor
The Cultural Legacy of the Brontës
Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë
Nineteenth-Century Assessments
The Brontës' Enduring Reputation

Categories: Books, Brontëana