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title: "The Brontes"
brand: "juliet barker"
price: "₪171"
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# The Brontes

**Brand:** juliet barker
**Price:** ₪171
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- **What is this?** The Brontes by juliet barker
- **How much does it cost?** ₪171 with free shipping
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The Brontes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    kindle edition has no illustrations
  

*by L***D on Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2024*

No complaints about the text (although I suspect Barker is a bit overindulgent to Patrick and Arthur). The kindle edition has minimal illustrations, just tiny uncaptioned headpieces at the start of some of the chapters. Amazon don’t seem to have any problem including massive color ads in the Kindle, so where are the actual illustrations for the book they’ve sold me?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A great book for those who appreciate the history of the Bronte family
  

*by D***W on Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2023*

I have enjoyed this biography a great deal more than Elizabeth Gaskell's.  In fact, Juliet Barker makes contradictory comment throughout her work regarding statements made by Gaskell.  For instance, the condition of the schools in which the children were taught are much more developed in Barker's work. "It is easy to fall into the same trap as Mrs. Gaskell and assume that the Bronte children's interests were 'of a sedentary and intellectual nature'...This is only a very small part of the story, and, indeed, in some ways a major distortion of the truth."The reader learns that the order of the Clergy Daughters' School was severe. It practiced public beating and wearing a sign with the inscription “neryakha”. Food was often stale and contaminated, and one day this led to an outbreak of the typhus epidemic. Conditions at the school were terrible, and many students fell ill with fatal ailments, including Mary and Elizabeth.  From there, the children were placed in the Roe Head School."Things were different at the Roe Head School.  It was everything the Clergy Daughter's School was not.  A rather grand three-storey building, wih an ununsual double-bowed frontage, it had been built for the Marriotte family in 1740...and had only a very small number of pupils, apparently between seven and ten....The regime was disciplined by kindly.  With so few pupils it was possible to take into account each girl's foibles and capabilities and there is no doubt that Charlotte not only benefied from the education offered, but also actually enjoyed her time at the school."  (page 200)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great Edition!!
  

*by J***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2018*

I had purchased the earlier version of the book, the one from the 1990s--1,100 pages--and when this one came out, with about 200 more pages, I was intrigued to read the new material.  Amazon put it on sale for $8.98--could not turn it down--well worth the price.  I love the Brontes--and their lives have fascinated me as much as their own writings.  Juliet Barker is a wonderful writer--she made the Brontes live again--in my mind.  I read the first version of this book over 8 days, almost non--stop except for meals and sleep.  I've been reading the expanded version with the first one near at hand--a little more slowly--since I have lots more Bronte material, including the juvenilia.

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