The Bronte Myth -- Digging Beyond the Surface

Long ago, the lives of the Brontë sisters--Charlotte, Emily and Anne--reached mythic proportions, as they compelled fanatical devotion. However, as Lucasta Miller shows in "The Brontë Myth," many of the cultural memories of the sisters have very little to do with reality. As much as "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" horrified some initial reviewers with their scandalous passion and "coarse" language, some of the perpetrators of the Brontë myth largely ignored the sisters' true claim to fame. Read on.

• The Bronte Myth
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
• Books About Charlotte Brontë
• The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Read more about the Brontë sisters.