| Description |
1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Presents a biography of the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, and their lives growing up on the moors of Enland inventing stories with their brother, Branwell, which led them each to write their famous books "Jane Eyre," "Wuthering Heights," and "Agnes Grey." |
| Audience |
1080 Lexile. |
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1080L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.8 6 154528 |
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Accelerated Reader MG+ 7.8 6 154528 |
| Summary |
Explores the turbulent lives of the three literary siblings and the oppressive times in which they lived, and offers insight into their classic nineteenth-century novels. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-219) and index. |
| Contents |
"Oh God, my poor children!" -- "Bend inclination to duty" -- "What on Earth is half so dear?" -- "Who ever rose...without ambition?" -- "A peculiar music" -- "It is soul speaking to soul" -- "Moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath" -- "A dreadful darkness closes in" -- "Out of obscurity I came" -- "I should fancy I heard the steps of the dead". |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Juvenile literature.
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 -- Juvenile literature.
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Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849 -- Juvenile literature.
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Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849. |
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855. |
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Subject |
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Sisters -- England -- Yorkshire -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Women authors, English -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
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Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848.
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Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849.
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Authors, English.
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Sisters.
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Women authors.
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Women -- Biography.
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Authors, English. |
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Sisters. |
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Women authors, English. |
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England -- Yorkshire. |
| Genre |
Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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Juvenile works.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Reef, Catherine. Brontë sisters New York : Clarion Books, 2012 9780547579665 (DLC) 2011043559 (OCoLC)760176333 |
| ISBN |
9780547575476 : $9.99 |
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0547575475 : $9.99 |
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