Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Brontes
It is so easy to be Wise after the event, to shake one's head over a marriage that took place a hundred years ago, and proved to be not a particularly happy one. If Miss Maria Branwell of Penzance, in that summer of 1812, had said No to the Reverend Patrick Bronte, b.a., curate of hartshead-cum-clifton, those six little delicate Brontes would not have been brought into the world at the rate of one a year, and left motherless, to toddle hand-in-hand about the Haworth moors. But then, neither would there have been any Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell there would have been no Bronte novels to be discovered by Messrs. Smith Elder, no Bronte story to tell, no Bronte cult. But Miss Maria Branwell said Yes - a demure little yes, but quite audible and firmly spoken; a pathetic little packet of love-letters survives to tell the tale. And in saying that word she sealed her own fate, and earned her own little niche, by contributing one of its most passionately human chapters to the history of our literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
