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The Brontės - Children of the Moors
Contributor(s): Manning, Mick (Author), Granström, Brita (Author)
ISBN: 1445147319     ISBN-13: 9781445147314
Publisher: Franklin Watts
OUR PRICE:   $15.29  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: December 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Women
Dewey: B
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 9.6" W x 11.8" (1.25 lbs) 48 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Family
- Cultural Region - British Isles
 
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Publisher Description:

Produced to coincide with 200th anniversary of the birth of Charlotte Bront , this book introduces the three extraordinary Bront sisters: Charlotte, Emily and Anne. We also meet their brother Branwell. With a mix of strong story-telling and wonderful illustration, Mick Manning and Brita Granstr m relate the sister's tragically short lives in the remote village of Haworth in the Yorkshire Dales. They explore how the girls were inspired to become writers and the sensation their books caused when people realised they had been written by women.
Each of the sister's greatest novels, Jane Eyre (Charlotte), The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne) and Wuthering Heights (Emily), are simply retold in engaging comic-strip form.
The illustrations and text of this book really capture the life of the children of the moors and how the magic and wildness of their surroundings inspired their work. It is perhaps not surprising as Mick Manning was born and brought up in Haworth and, as a child, even played a shepherd boy in a BBC adapation of Wuthering Heights.