In spite of the prevalence of education in the Brontës' lives and fiction, this was the first full-length book on the subject when published in 2007. Marianne Thormählen offers much new information both about the Brontës and their books and about the controversies about education in early nineteenth-century British social politics.
An exploration of how the Bront s' fiction engages with the intense debates on education in the nineteenth century.
