Clarendon Press, 1971, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Portrait to the frontispiece;
From the cover: "Winifred Gerin's Emily Bronte marks the culmination of seventeen years' research and completes her cycle of Bronte biographies begun in 1959 with Anne Bronte, followed in 1961 with Branwell Bronte, and in 1967 with Charlotte Bronte: the Evolution of Genius, which obtained three major literary awards. Meanwhile, John Lock, Miss Gerin's husband, published The Life, Letters, and Times of the Rev. Patrick Bronte in collaboration with W. T. Dixon in 1965, thus allowing the entire Bronte family to be seen in perspective.
Emily Bronte 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 Bronte's, her first-hand study of the MSS, and her intimate knowledge of the Haworth scene through ten years residence in the village.
The result is not only the portrait of a singular genius but of a mind in growth. Emily is shown in girlhood and in adolescence as susceptible to the influences of her time — religious, regional and literary — and Gondal in the true perspective of its Gothic and Romantic prototypes. The metaphysical and thematic parallels between Gondal and Wuthering Heights are made the subject of special analysis, and the full texts of Emily's significant French Essays are given for the first time."
Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Gently faded at the spine of the dust wrapper. Top edge of the text block lightly spotted. Slight tanning to the blanks. Text complete, clean and tight otherwise.
Blue boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [IX] 290 pages. Index. Bibliography. 8¾" x 5¾".
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