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The Brontes
Contemporary Review, Summer, 2006
The Brontes. Patricia Ingham. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]7.99. xx + 273 pages. ISBN 0-19-284035-5. This study, part of the Oxford World's Classics' 'Authors in Context' series, sets out to discuss the work not of one author but of three: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte. The Brontes may have lived in a small Yorkshire village but they led 'somewhat theatrical lives', described elsewhere as 'melodramatic' with 'early deaths, sudden success, alcoholism, adultery, unrequited and unrequitable love'.
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She argues that despite their isolation the three novelists were fully part of Victorian society. After discussing the family itself she turns to social conditions, the world of literature and publishing, the relations between their novels and social class, 'gender, nationality and race' in the novels, the women's attitude to mental health and diseases and the role of emotion, religion in the Brontes' works (not the strongest chapter) and the adaptations of the novels in the years after their publication. (A.C.)
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