Article: Beguiled by the Brontes.(The Bronte Myth)(Book Review)

Daphne Athas is a novelist and essayist who received the 2003 Lifetime Achievement Mentor Award from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches.

Lucasta Miller's encyclopedic account of works inspired by the Brontes' books and lives is also a narrative of revelation through readers' reactions through the ages.

THE BRONTE MYTH

By Lucasta Miller

New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 2003

351 pp., $26.00

What is it about the Brontes that has made interest in them endure for two centuries, multiplying exponentially as we enter a third? In The Bronte Myth, Lucasta Miller, an Oxford-educated critic, ...

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