The Bronte Myth

This is not so much a biography but an examination of the myth that surrounds the Brontes.  It says that rather than focusing on the lives of these three women (Anne, Emily, and Charlotte) that people should focus on their literary efforts.   It tears apart Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte which domesticated her.  It contradicts itself when it says that Anne is ignored but doesn’t even contribute a chapter of her to the book.  Charlotte gets the majority of the book and Emily has a few chapters devoted to her.  I’ll just have to read a biography of Anne’s life myself.  I agree with the book that the movie Devotion from Hollywood in the 40’s wasn’t that good.  I never heard about the myth that Branwell, their drunken brother, wrote Wuthering Heights.  Daphne Du Maurier (Rebecca) even wrote a book about that so I’m planning to read it sometime. 3/5