A review by erin_oriordan_is_reading_again
The Brontë Sisters: The Brief Lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne by Catherine Reef

4.0

Outwardly, the three Bronte sisters who lived long enough to see their poetry and novels published did not lead very exciting lives in the small northern English town of Haworth. Inwardly, these daughters of an Irish-born clergyman who lost their mother at an early age seem were gifted with incredibly fertile imaginations. In the female-repressive atmosphere of mid-19th century Victorian England, they used their novels to rebel against overly restrictive social conventions, shocking readers of their day and ensuring that their books would live on long after they were gone. Sadly, they were all gone too soon - Emily wrote only one novel, the masterful 'Wuthering Heights,' Anne produced only two novels, and Charlotte, the only Bronte sibling to have ever married, lived long enough to complete four novels. We can only imagine what they would have written if the family hadn't been ravaged by tuberculosis.