Just about everything you thought you knew about the Brontës is wrong. That’s the essential message of “The Brontës” by Juliet Barker. Eighteen years after her landmark biography was published, the ...

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The author of “Wuthering Heights” drew on an imagination saturated in folklore and wild nature.

Yet another biography of the Brontes requires an apology, or at least an explanation. Their lives have been written so many times that there ought to be nothing left to say. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of ...

Catherynne Valente, author of the bestselling Fairyland series (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making and its sequels), features one of literature’s most famous ...

The response to the film “Sylvia,” recently out in Britain, was marked by some extraordinary invective. Although critics were engaged by the popular retelling of Sylvia Plath’s tragic story, they ...

Following the Brontë Trail across the moors, the Wayfarers group walked between eight and 10 miles a day in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Susan Ecenbarger The storm had been assembling itself all morning, ...

The Brontë sisters are best known as the authors of literary gothic tales like Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, but in their childhood, they worked with their brother to invent the made-up realm of ...

Following the Brontë Trail across the moors, the Wayfarers group walked between eight and 10 miles a day in Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Susan Ecenbarger The storm had been assembling itself all morning, ...