A Chainless Soul: A Life of Emily Bronte (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780449906613)

"A fine retelling of the Bront s' story . . . It does much to throw light on the achievement of one of the greatest geniuses of nineteenth-century literature."--The New York Times Book Review

In this compelling, beautifully written book, Emily Bront emerges for the first time in the full complexity of her nature--the most gifted and intelligent of the Bront sisters, and also the most passionate, willful, and self-destructive. Katherine Frank, whose biography of Mary Kingsley won wide critical acclaim, brings a novelist's dramatic flair and a brilliant gift for analysis to this bold reinterpretation of Emily Bront 's life: the negligence of her sickly father, her affliction with anorexia, the fierce need to rebel that produced Wuthering Heights and her magnificent poetry.

Probing the depths of Emily Bront 's dark nature as no other biographer has done, Frank also sheds new light on her special place in her gifted, doomed family and her consuming relationships with Charlotte and her alcoholic brother, Branwell. A Chainless Soul paints an intimate, vivid, and deeply affecting portrait of one of the greatest, and most misunderstood, artists of nineteenth-century fiction.

Author: Katherine Frank
ISBN-10: 0449906612
ISBN-13: 9780449906613
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 01/28/1992
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.53h x 6.96w x 0.85d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/01/1992