bronte family

"In the English countryside of the nineteenth century, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bront?--coping with an elderly father and a brother dedicated to drinking--find themselves confronting their family's stormy economic forturnes. And they do it their own way: overcoming difficulties and first failures with pride and courage; transforming their creative talents into a source of sustenance; and finally living lives of freedom"--Provided by publisher.

Four children: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne, have invented a world so real and vivid that they can step right into it. But can reality be enough, when fiction is so enticing? And what happens to an imaginary world when its creators grow up? Plots are spiraling, characters are getting wildly out of hand, and a great deal of ink is being spilt.

"Living an isolated life in their strict father's parsonage out on the English moors, the Bront? siblings have always been inseparable, their vivid imaginations actually transporting them into their created worlds: the glittering Verdopolis and the romantic and melancholy Gonday, but when Branwell begins to slip into madness and the sisters feel their real lives slipping away, they must weigh the cost of their powerful imaginations, even as their characters--the brooding Rogue and dashing Duke of Zamorna--refuse to let them go"--Dust jacket.

A selection of prose and poetry by the sisters.

"Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Bront? have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school, a school they might not return from. But on this Beastliest Day, the day Anne and Branwell walk their sisters to the train station, something incredible happens: the train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a wonderland all their own"--Jacket flap.

Fourteen-year-old Emily would rather spend her days dreaming of adventures and wandering the moors, but when her father falls sick, and her sister Charlotte is sent away to school, reality comes crashing in.

Max finds twelve old wooden soldiers in the attic of his home and discovers they are alive. Historians have long been looking for them and, if found, they might be sold to an American museum where Max would never see them again.

Chronicles the childhood of Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Bront? drawn from Emily's writings.

Places the lives and works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte in a historical perspective and explores the social and political conditions that influenced the sisters' writings.