13819 Bronte and Literary Allusion

and Literary Allusion

and an excerpt from On the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing

Around 60 full size prints

Seven were published in the edition - Sense and Sensibility

13819 Bronte and Literary AllusionFour well connected, educated American sisters Catholic no less take Regency London by storm in 1816. The Duke of Wellington falls in love with Marrianne, and the rest of society is equally charmed by these ladies who are anything but the savages British still like to believe Americans to be during the Regency period. Drawing directly from the sisters' letters and other primary sources, Wake has put together a biography that reads like a novel, that