The Cambridge Companion to the Brontës (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Essays by leading scholars explore the lives and tragic early deaths of the three Bront? sisters. They set two of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century :Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights, in the context of the other prose and poetry of the sisters, and trace the reputation of the Bront?s through history. A detailed chronology and guides to further reading are included.