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Branwell
Brontë’s
Creation
In Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë tells the story of a governess rebelling against the cold place society has marked out for her. In Branwell Brontë's Creation, the story of Charlotte's own brother, Branwell, who likewise inhabited a cold, cold place, rebelled and suffered for it, is told. Charming, tormented, brilliant, Branwell came to be dismissed by many as a wastrel. It is a story based on truth, brilliantly fictionalised. Branwell, in loving simple Milly, loves not wisely but too well. She cannot begin to enter into the reality and complexity of his life, and becomes increasingly a kind of fiction to him yet love it is. A moving, lyrical, important novel, set in Broughton-
© Wendy Bardsley 2014
