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<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>This special edition of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>The Oxford Companion to the Brontës</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)> commemorates the bicentenary of Emily Brontë's birth in July 1818 and provides comprehensive and detailed information about the lives works and reputations of the Brontës - the three sisters Charlotte Emily and Anne their father and their brother Branwell.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Expanded entries surveying the Brontës' lives and works are supplemented by entries on friends and acquaintances pets literary and political heroes; on the places they knew and the places they imagined; on their letters drawings and paintings; on historical events such as Chartism the Peterloo Massacre and the Ashantee Wars; on exploration slavery and religion. Selected entries on the characters and places in the Brontë juvenilia provide a glimpse into their early imaginative worlds and entries on film ballet and musicals indicate the extent to which their works have inspired others. A new foreword to the text has been also penned by Claire Harman award-winning writer and literary critic and recent biographer of Charlotte Brontë.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>This is a unique and authoritative reference book for the research student and the general reader. The A-Z format extensive cross-referencing classified contents chronologies illustrations and maps both facilitate quick reference and encourage further exploration. This </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Companion</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(88 89 91 1)> is not only invaluable for quick searches but a delight to browse and an inspiration to further reading.</span></p>