The house of dead maids
By: Clare B. Dunkle ; [illustrations by Patrick Arrasmith].
Contributors: Arrasmith, Patrick, ill.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805091168
Subjects: Brontë family -- Fiction; Household employees -- Fiction; Ghosts -- Fiction; Rites and ceremonies -- Fiction; Orphans -- Fiction; Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Eleven-year-old Tabby Aykroyd, who would later serve as housekeeper for thirty years to the Brönte sisters, is taken from an orphanage to a ghost-filled house, where she and a wild young boy are needed for a pagan ritual.