The Crimes of Charlotte Brointe: A Novel
New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Fine, unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. First edition. Hardcover. 284 pp. The story of the lives of the Bronte family is as haunting and tragic as their novels: three sisters and an alcoholic brother shut up in the bleak, claustrophobic parsonage Haworth in Yorkshire. Author James Tully , a noted criminologist, became fascinated with the inconsistencies he found in accounts of the lives and deaths of the Brontes and became enmeshed in seeking out the mysteries of Haworth. So dark and unexpected were the results that he decided to tell the story in the form of a novel. Here the story is told through two voices---the Brontes' housekeeper Martha, who began service at Haworth as a child and left as the mistress of Charlotte's widowed husband; and Charles Counts, the small town lawyer who accidentally stumbles across Martha's memoir. Fine / fine. Item #E33508
ISBN: 9780786706464
Price: $19.95