Novelists and Houses

The latest book by John Sutherland contains a Brontë chapter:

Lives of the Novelists
A History of Fiction in 294 Lives
John Sutherland
Imprint: Profile Books
Published: 27/10/2011
ISBN: 9781846681578

This is the most complete history of fiction in English ever published. The world's greatest authority - arguably the only person whocould have written it, John Sutherland - provides the lives of some 294 novelists writing in English, from the genre's seventeenth-century origins to the present day.
Arranged in chronological order the novelist's lives are opinionated, informative, frequently funny and often shocking. Professor Sutherland's authors come from all over the world; their writings illustrate every kind of fiction from gothic, penny dreadfuls and pornography to fantasy, romance and high literature.The book shows the changing forms of the genre, and how the aspirations of authors to divert and sometimes to educate their readers, has in some respects, radically changed over the centuries, and in others - such as their interest in sex and relationships - remained remarkably constant.

Number 42 are the Brontës: Patrick, Branwell, Charlotte, Emily and Anne.


And a paperback release of a book originally published in 2007:

Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory
Edited by Harald Hendrix
Published 23rd February 2012
Paperback: 978-0-415-54082-7
Routledge - Tayor & Francis
This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona; it also demonstrates how this materialized process of self-fashioning is subsequently appropriated within various strategies and policies of cultural memory.

Chapter 7 is Myth and Memory: Reading the Brontë Parsonage by Christine Alexander;