Emily Brontë – Winifred Gérin Actieprijs

Winifred Gérin’s Emily Brontë marks the culmination of seventeen years’ research and completes her cycle of Brontë biographies begun in 1959 with Anne Brontë, followed in 1961 with Bramwell Brontë, and in 1967 with Charlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius which obtained three major literary awards.
Emily Brontë has been the subject of numerous literary studies, but there have been few informed biographies of her. The present author brings to the task three distinctive assets: her previous works on the Bront…