The Brontë Myth Literature sometimes results in betrayal

sometimes results in betrayal

or green-thumbed friend

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she manages to transcend the social strictures of the nineteenth century

virtually imprisoned by her father’s demands

The Brontë Myth Literature sometimes results in betrayalBy Lucasta Miller Since 1857, hardly a year has gone by without some sort of Bronte 'biography' appearing. These range from pious accounts in Victorian conduct books to Freudian pyschobiographies, from plays, films and ballets to tourist brochures and images on tea towels, from sensation seeking penny a liners to meticulous works of sober scholarship. Each generation has rewritten the Brontes to reflect changing attitudes towards the role of the woman