num_pages: 320
description: How many times have you heard readers argue about which is better Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights ? The works of Charlotte Emily and Anne continue to provoke passionate fandom over a century after their deaths. Brontnthusiasts as well as those of us who never made it further than those oft-cited classics will devour Miranda Pennington's delightful literary memoir.Pennington today a writer and teacher in New York was a precocious reader. Her father gave her Jane Eyre at the age of 10 sparking what would become a lifelong devotion and multiple re-readings. She began to delve into the work and lives of the Bront finding that the sisters were at times her lifeline her sounding board even her closest friends. In this charming offbeat memoir Pennington traces the development of the Brontas women as sisters and as writers as she recounts her own struggles to fit in as a bookish introverted bisexual woman. In the Brontand their characters Pennington finally finds the heroines she needs and she becomes obsessed with their wisdom courage and fearlessness. Her obsession makes for an entirely absorbing and unique read.A Girl Walks Into a Book is a candid and emotional love affair that braids criticism biography and literature into a quest that helps us understand the place of literature in our lives; how it affects and inspires us.
language: English
title: A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women's Work
publisher: Seal Press