The Art of the Brontës

This is the first full-scale study of the drawings and paintings of the Bront� sisters and their brother, Branwell, including the first catalogue of all known Bront� illustrations, published and unpublished. The Art of the Bront�s comprises 400 illustrated entries, recording such details as medium, dating, provenance, sources, style, and arguments for attribution; and documenting many previously unknown drawings and paintings. In addition, a sequence of narrative chapters provides new material on each of the four Bront� siblings and their relationships to the visual arts, suggesting ways in which their experience of drawing influenced their writing. An annotated and illustrated catalogue which is also a work of scholarly criticism, this publication is a landmark in Bront� studies and in the fields of nineteenth-century literature and painting generally.