The Complete Bronte Collection (Wordsworth Box Sets)

Product Description

The perfect gift for any Bronte Sisters lover. Each boxset contains seven books, together creating a comprehensive collection of the Bronte Sisters’ best and much-loved works. Beautifully packaged in a ridged, matt-laminated slipcase with metallic detailing, complete with strikingly attractive, bespoke artwork. Includes: 9781853262166 – Agnes Grey 9781853264887 – The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 9781853260209 – Jane Eyre 9781853262081 – The Professor 9781853260643 – Shirley 9781853260728 – Villette 9781853260018 – Wuthering Heights

About the Author

The Brontë Sisters were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte (1816 1855), Emily (1818 1848), and Anne (1820 1849), are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention for their passion and originality. Charlotte’s Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily’s Wuthering Heights, Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature. The three sisters and their brother, Branwell (1817 1848), were very close and during childhood developed their imaginations first through oral storytelling and play set in an intricate imaginary world, and then through the collaborative writing of increasingly complex stories set therein. The deaths of first their mother, and then of their two older sisters marked them profoundly and influenced their writing, as did the relative isolation in which they were raised. The Brontë birthplace in Thornton is a place of pilgrimage and their later home, the parsonage at Haworth in Yorkshire, now the Brontë Parsonage Museum, welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.