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Please feel free to choose a design below. We hand-wrap our gifts using museum quality gift wrapping paper and offering a hand written note in ink. WOULD YOU LIKE THIS GIFT WRAPPED? Please choose a gift wrap from the following designs! For those with a passion for the Brontes, or for Victoriana, or for sheer wealth of historical minutiae, it is a stupendous read' INDPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'As a work of scholarship it is briliant.

THE BRONTES is a revolutionary picture of the world's favourite literary family. Based on first-hand research among all the Bronte manuscripts, many so tiny they can only be read by magnifying glass, and among contemporary historical documents never before used by Bronte biographers, this book is both scholarly and compulsively readable. It demolishes myths, yet provides startling new information that is just as compelling - but true. Juliet Barker's landmark book was the first definitive history of the Brontes. Or do we? These stereotypes of the popular imagination are precisely that - imaginary - created by amateur biographers from Mrs Gaskell onwards who were primarily novelists, and were attracted by the tale of an apparently doomed family of genius. "The Brontes" won the Yorkshire Post Book Award and was short-listed for both the AT&T Non-Fiction Prize and the Marsh Biography Award.The story of the tragic Bronte family is familiar to everyone: we all know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted wastrel of a brother, wild romantic Emily, unrequited Anne and 'poor Charlotte'. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In 1999 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Bradford. with Richard Barber: Tournaments: Jousts, Chivalry and Pageants in the Middle Ages (1989)The Boydell Press, ISBN 0-85115-470-0.1381: The Year of the Peasants’ Revolt (2014).Drops into an Ocean: Continuing the story of Caring For Life (2017).England Arise: The People, the King and the Great Revolt of 1381 (2014).Conquest: The English Kingdom of France 1417-50 (2009) London: Little, Brown.

The Deafening Sound of Silent Tears: The Story of Caring For Life (2007).

Agincourt: The King, the Campaign, the Battle (2005), UK: Little, Brown ISBN 8-X.

īarker was educated at Bradford Girls' Grammar School and St Anne's College, Oxford, where she gained her doctorate in medieval history. From 1983 to 1989 she was the curator and librarian of the Bronte Parsonage Museum. She is the author of a number of well-regarded works on the Brontës, William Wordsworth, and medieval tournaments. Barker FRSL (born 1958) is an English historian, specialising in the Middle Ages and literary biography.