The Brontës in Brussells / Helen MacEwan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacEwan, Helen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brontë family.

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855--Homes and haunts--Belgium--Brussels.

Brontë, Charlotte.

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848--Homes and haunts--Belgium--Brussels.

Brontë, Emily.

Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.

Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.

Belgium--Brussels.

Physical Description:

218 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Peter Owen Publishers, 2014.

Summary:

The Brontes' time in Belgium, five years before they became best-selling authors, is the least-known episode of their lives, but is a fascinating and important one. The book follows in the tracks of the sisters in Brussels, describing their life in the city: though the school where they came to study French has now disappeared, there is still a lot to be seen of the city the sisters knew; two of Charlotte's four novels (Villette and The Professor) are also based on her spell abroad, which was pivotal to her both as a writer and personally, since she fell in love with her teacher Constantin Heger. Charlotte's moving and harrowing letters to Heger, a respectable married man, are reproduced in full here and believe the common image of her as the motherly and strait-laced Bronte. Also including maps of the period, extracts from Villette reflecting real-life experiences in Brussels and translations of the sisters' little-known Belgian essays, what emerges is a complete portrait of a slice of literary history, as well as a haunting evocation of a time and a place that came to haunt the Brontes themselves.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780720615883

0720615887

OCLC:

884426991