The Brontës and Education

by Marianne Thormählen

Book Overview

All the seven Bront novels are concerned with education in both senses, that of upbringing as well as that of learning. The Bront sisters all worked as teachers before they became published novelists. In spite of the prevalence of education in the sisters' lives and fiction, however, this was the first full-length book on the subject when it was published in 2007. Marianne Thorm hlen explores how their representations of fictional teachers and schools...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521155614
• ISBN13: 9780521155618
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"