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

THE BRONTË MYTH
By Lucasta Miller
New York: Alfred A. Knopf , 2003
351 pp., $26.00

       
What is it about the Brontës that has made interest in them endure for two centuries, multiplying exponentially as we enter a third? In The Brontë Myth, Lucasta Miller, an Oxford-educated critic, journalist, and essayist and former deputy literary editor of the Independent, explores the split between 

Read more ( interesting): worldandi.com/subscribers