James Tully

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kentucky

The Secrets of a Mysterious Family

Using fiction to explore further his investigation into the Brontes' lives, noted true crime author James Tully creates a murder mystery darker than anything produced by their imaginations and reveals a hidden side to their literary myth.

In 1845, Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls came to Haworth Parsonage to be the new curate. His arrival ignited the passions beneath the four Bronte siblings' isolated life on the Yorkshire moors. Within two years, lane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey were published. Two years after that, Branwell, Emily, and Anne were dead. By 1855, Charlotte was also dead, after barely a year of marriage to Nicholls. The causes of their demise have never been fully investigated but simply incorporated into the Bronte myth.

Told through the Parsonage maid, Martha Brown, The Crimes of Charlotte Bronte penetrates the claustrophobic world where the Bronte sisters wrote their stories of tumultuous passions and twisted love. Were their tragically early deaths merely the resultof illness, or are there telltale clues of poisoning in their correspondence and the doctors' reports? What was Branwell's true role in the writ

Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction

Format - Hardcover

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Ships From - Kentucky

Est. Publication Date - Aug 1999

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