The Crimes of Charlotte Brontë: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- The Brontë story, haunting and tragic as their novels; three sisters and an alcoholic brother shut up in the bleak, claustrophobic parsonage, in Yorkshire. Criminologist James Tully fascinated by inconsistencies in their lives and deaths found dark and unexpected results in his research. He tells the story as a novel. Using real characters and known facts of their lives. His vision of the truth behind the established Brontë biography is startling. The Brontës' housekeeper, Martha, who began service at Haworth as a child and left as the mistress of Charlotte's widowed husband, and Charles Coutts, the town lawyer who finds Martha's memoir tell the story. Disturbing questions arise: How did three sisters in a country parsonage know so much about the darker passions of love? Did Charlotte's husband, Arthur Nicholls, first make Emily pregnant? Poet and artist, drug user and alcoholic--was Branwell also an expert blackmailer? Are the Brontës' pseudonyms a link with the man who manipulated them? Why did Nicholls discourage Charlotte's writing to anyone? Why did he try to prevent the publication of Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë? Was Anne poisoned to stop her revealing the truth about Emily's death? Why would old Mr. Brontë alter his will to leave everything to Nicholls--a man he loathed? Was there a cold-blooded murderer at the heart of the Brontë household?
- Copyright:
- 1999
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 284 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780786706464
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 08/03/08
- Copyrighted By:
- James Tully
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Amber W
- Proofread By:
- Lissi
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.