Winifred Gérin : biographer of the Brontës /
"The biographer Winifred Gérin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Brontë siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Brontë enthusiast twenty year...
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Eastbourne :
Sussex Academic Press,
2016.
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| Linkit: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1090510 |
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- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Norwood: Childhood and the End of Childhood; 2 Paris 1913: 'The most splendid adventure'; 3 Sydenham: The Great War Years; 4 Cambridge: 'Bill' and 'Q'; 5 Holidays in France: 'Plom' and Cannes; 6 Paris Idyll: 1932-1939; 7 Flight from Brussels: The Summer of 1940; 8 Nice: The Pit of Darkness; 9 Aspley Guise: Political Intelligence; 10 West Cromwell Road: The Long Road Back; 11 Haworth: 'Brontë Atmosphere'; 12 Haworth: Recognition at Last; 13 Kensington: The Final Fifteen Years; Epilogue.