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Brontes

cruel thunder-maker of the three Cyclopes. [Gk. Myth.: Pan finder, 47; Jobes, 251, 400]
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Brontes

cruel Cyclops who controls the weather; able to cause great thunder. [Gk. Myth.: Parrinder, 47; Jobes, 241, 400]
See: Thunder
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7) Newby had ignored the authors' corrected proof-sheets, causing Charlotte Bronte to complain to Williams that 'The orthography and punctuation of the books are mortifying to a degree.
Newby's chicanery: new Bronte letters
Critique: Exceptionally well written, thoughtful and thought provoking, and an inherently absorbing read from beginning to end, "A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontes Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women's Work" is a unique and extraordinary literary memoir and one that is very highly recommended for both community and academic library collections.
A Girl Walks Into a Book
It has had many manifestations since the Brontes lived there,' says Derry.
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Just how were the Brontes able to overcome these adversities and become literary sensations?
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It is an imaginary world that has been conjured into existence by Charlotte and Branwell Bronte.
Worlds of Ink and Shadow
Those of you with a literary turn of mind will immediately know I'm talking about Bronte country.
Hopping back in time; SUE JOLLY Take an enchanting trip to the Lake District for Beatrix Potter's 150th anniversary then travel across to Bronte country, where Charlotte was born 200 years ago
Whilst the older Japanese women on Yukiko's tour are overcome to be in the mythical Parsonage where the Brontes penned their famed novels, Yukiko has no interest in some long-dead authors.
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Years after the deaths of the two oldest Bronte sisters, the remaining four siblings, now in their teens--romantic Charlotte, brooding Branwell, peculiar Emily, and sensible Anne--are still in the aftershock of grief and steeping in bleak thoughts of the future.
Coakley, Lena. Worlds of Ink and Shadow: A Novel of the Brontes
As a double adaptation--of the historical lives of the Brontes and of Chekhov's play--We Are Three Sisters provides an intriguing opportunity to enter from a new perspective and refine the current conversation about adaptation and adaptation theory.
After Chekhov: The Three Sisters of Beth Henley, Wendy Wasserstein, Timberlake Wertenbaker, and Blake Morrison
And what of the Bronte sisters dying in their lonely parsonage on the moors; was this a case of serial pneumonia?
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Medical Lives of Famous Writers
Indeed, throughout this criticism we find language of deformity or aberrancy used to describe Brontes novel and its characters.
Hareton Earnshaw and the shadow of idiocy: disability and domestic disorder in Wuthering Heights

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