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_aMacEwan, Helen, _eauthor. |
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_aWinifred G�erin : _bbiographer of the Bront�es / _cHelen MacEwan. |
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_aBrighton ; _aChicago : _bSussex Academic Press, _c2016. |
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| 300 | _a1 online resource (285 pages) | ||
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
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_a"The biographer Winifred G�erin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bront�e 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 Bront�e enthusiast twenty years her junior. Together they turned their backs on London to live within sight of the Parsonage, G�erin believing that full understanding of the Bront�es required total immersion in their environment. G�erin's childhood and youth, like the Bront�es, was characterised by a cultured home and an intense imaginative life shared with her sister and two brothers, and by family tragedies (the loss of two siblings in early life). Strong cultural influences formed the children's imagination: polyglot parents, French history, the Crystal Palace, Old Vic productions. Winifred's years at Newnham College, Cambridge were enlivened by such eccentric characters as the legendary lecturer Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q'), Lytton Strachey's sister Pernel, and Bloomsbury's favourite philosopher, G.E. Moore. Her happy life in Paris with her Belgian cellist husband, Eug�ene G�erin, was brought to an abrupt end by the Second World War, during which the couple had many adventures: fleeing occupied Belgium, saving Jews in Vichy France, and escaping through Spain and Portugal to England, where they did secret war work for the Political Intelligence Department near Bletchley Park. After Eug�ene's death in 1945 Winifred coped with bereavement by writing poetry and plays until discovering her true literary metier on her visit to Haworth"-- _cProvided by publisher. |
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| 588 | _aDescription based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2016. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | _aG�erin, Winifred. |
| 600 | 3 | 0 | _aBront�e family. |
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_aWomen biographers _zGreat Britain _vBiography. |
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| 650 | 0 | _aBiography as a literary form. | |
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_iPrint version: _aMacEwan, Helen. _tWinifred G�erin : biographer of the Bront�es. _dBrighton : Sussex Academic Press, 2016 _z9781845197438 |
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