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Winifred Gérin: Biographer of the Brontës
Helen Macewan
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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, illus. BIC Classification: BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 228 x 26. Weight in Grams: 428.
The biographer Winifred Gerin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Bronte enthusiast twenty years her junior. Together they turned their backs on London to live within sight of the Parsonage, Gerin believing that full understanding of the Brontes required total immersion in their environment. Gerin's childhood and youth, like the Brontes', was characterised by a cultured home and intense imaginative life shared with her sister ... Read more
The biographer Winifred Gerin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Bronte enthusiast twenty years her junior. Together they turned their backs on London to live within sight of the Parsonage, Gerin believing that full understanding of the Brontes required total immersion in their environment. Gerin's childhood and youth, like the Brontes', was characterised by a cultured home and intense imaginative life shared with her sister ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845197438
SKU
V9781845197438
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About Helen Macewan
Helen MacEwan studied modern languages at Oxford University. A translator and former teacher, she is the author of The Brontes in Brussels, a guide to Charlotte and Emily Bronte's time at the Pensionnat Heger, and Down the Belliard Steps: Discovering the Brontes in Brussels. And most recently, Winifred Gerin: Biographer of the Brontes (Adds significantly to Bronte studies and literary ... Read more
Reviews for Winifred Gérin: Biographer of the Brontës
"In an original and revealing biography ... Helen MacEwan presents not just a fascinating study of Gerins long and at times very personal preoccupation with the Brontes, but the story of a highly individual character ... Using much previously unknown and unpublished material, MacEwan has painstakingly put together a portrait of one woman and her times that adds significantly to ... Read more