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Title	:	Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother
Author	:	Douglas A. Martin
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	Expected publication: July 7th 2020 by Soft Skull (first published November 30th 2005)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

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They must coax his hidden talent out into full bloom. He must be driven enough, in imagination, talented enough to support them all.

Branwell Brontë—brother of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—has a childhood marked by tragedy and the weight of expectations. After the early deaths of his mother and a beloved older sister, he is kept away from school and tutored at home by his father, a curate, who rests all his ambitions for his children on his only son. Branwell grows up isolated in his family’s parsonage on the moors, learning Latin and Greek, being trained in painting, and collaborating on endless stories and poems with his sisters. Yet while his sisters go on to write Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Agnes Grey, Branwell wanders from job to job, growing increasingly dependent on alcohol and opium and failing to become a great poet or artist. With rich, suggestive sentences “perfectly fitted to this famously imaginative, headstrong family” (Publishers Weekly), Branwell is a portrait of childhood dreams, thwarted desire, the confinements of gender—and an homage to the landscape and milieu that inspired some of the most revolutionary works of English literature. A new edition with an introduction by Darcey Steinke.

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Original Title:	Branwell: A Novel of the Bronte Brother
ISBN:	1593765975 (ISBN13: 9781593765972)
Edition Language:	English

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i cried.The only time in my life I wanted to burn a book. Makes me wonder what people really think of the Brontes ... according to this book, Bramwell was not only gay (and he WASN'T -- know your facts), but he was discharged from his post for violating his young pupil. (Bramwell was discharged for having an affair with the Mistress of the house!!) THIS mess has Bramwell violating his student (Anne witnesses it), passes around the boy to the stable hands, and if I remember correctly (and, personally, I

The Bronte brother, wild, drunken, druggy. Off beat style of writing but I liked it.

Poor Branwell...a lot is expected of him. But life starts out with not one loss but two. Not only his Mother, but the oldest Bronte sister Maria who was like a mother to him. Followed by yet another sister....this is what I believe dooms Branwell from the very start. Though the story is a fictionalized account of the Brontes, it is known that Charlotte destroyed much of her families paperwork and diaries, leaving much speculation about the Brontes.This is one account of a much beloved and much

Tragic/beautiful story of Branwell Bronte, a lost but artistic (and probably nonheterosexual) soul who flails through life with passion and despair before basically drinking himself to death at a young age...Martin perfectly captures the ambiguity and mystery surrounding Branwell and his extraordinary sisters, an ambiguity that extends into the shifting perspectives of the prose and even the punctuation itself (for example: Martin never uses question marks).



I loathed this book. From the way Martin styled it, to the subject matter. I've done a little research and further expect this book is a lot of made up whooplah. I'm all for a little historical fiction, but taking someone so well known as the Bronte's and having better information out there, this story line was just self defeating toward the end. The further I read, the further I disliked it. If this is any indication of Martin's style, I'll gladly never read another novel of his :P

Few books are more depressing than the celebrated fiction of the Bronte sisters. This disheartening story about their wretched brother is one.