"We are three sisters"
Subtitle: self and family in the writing of the Brontës
By: Drew Lamonica.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Criticism and interpretation; Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848 -- Criticism and interpretation; Brontë, Anne, 1820-1849 -- Criticism and interpretation; Brontë family; Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Women and literature -- England -- Yorkshire; Autobiography in literature; Sisters in literature; Family in literature; Self in literature; Yorkshire (England) -- In literature
Description: "In "We Are Three Sisters," Drew Lamonica focuses on the role of families in the Brontes' fictions of personal development, exploring the ways in which their writings recognize the family as defining community for selfhood.".

"Drawing on extensive primary sources, including works by Sarah Ellis, Sarah Lewis, Ann Richelieu Lamb, Harriet Martineau, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Gaskell, Lamonica examines the dialogic relationship between the Brontes' novels and a mid-Victorian domestic ideology that held the family to be the principal nurturer of subjectivity.

Using a sociohistorical framework, "We Are Three Sisters" shows that the Brontes' novels display a heightened awareness of contemporary female experience and the complex problems of securing a valued sense of self-hood not wholly dependent on family ties."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Family as context and content; title: The Victorian context : self, family, and society; title: The family context : writing as sibling relationship; title: Jane Eyre : the pilgrimage of the "poor orphan child"; title: Wuthering heights : the boundless passion of Catherine Earnshaw; title: Agnes Grey and the tenant of Wildfell Hall : lessons of the family; title: The professor and Shirley : industrial pollution of family relations and values; title: Villette : authorial regeneration and the death of the family; title: Life after Villette.