The Sisters Bronte: The Professor; Jane Eyre; Villette; Shirley; Tenant of Wildfell Hall; Agnes Grey; Wuthering Heights.

BRONTE, Charlotte.

Item Number: 127399

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905.

The Thornton edition of the Sisters Bronte. Octavo, 12 volumes, bound in three quarter calf by Bayntun, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, illustrated. In fine condition. An exceptional set.

The Brontes were a nineteenth-century literary family associated with the village of Thornton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne are well known as poets and novelists. Like many contemporary female writers, they originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their stories immediately attracted attention, although not always the best, for their passion and originality. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, while Emily's Wuthering Heights, Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were later to be accepted as masterpieces of literature.