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Summary: A great read!
Review: The thought that Emily Bronte might have actually experienced some of the passion she wrote about in Wuthering Heights is intriguing. I enjoyed the romance between Alex and Selena and the breaking of the "gypsy curse". My only criticism would be the characterization of Alex's ex-girlfriend who I thought was too one-dimensional in her jealousy of Alex. Since she was supposed to be a Bronte scholar, I thought her reaction to the discovery of Emily's letter wasn't what I would have expected. I also thought that Alex's reaction to Selena's subsequent destruction of the letter was a bit too understanding.
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Summary: Historical Imagination meets DNA
Review: Was it possible for Emily Bronte to write passionately of a dark lover (WUTHERING HEIGHTS's Heathcliff) without herself having first had a romance with someone very like him? Author Jill Jones imagines that it was so. For no chaste unmarried English lady in the 1840s could have written the poems and novel that Emily Bronte in fact wrote without having met an injured gypsy horse trader on the moors and fallen madly in love. Having taught him to read and write, she eventually carries his child. But the fear of being expelled from her family, should her secret become known, causes Emily to commit voluntary suicide through a combination of starvation and refusal to see a doctor after taking a chill. Thus far the historical imagination of Jill Jones.Nearly 150 years later two competing scholars of the Brontes and two descendants of Mikel the gypsy lover blunder together through the evidence for Emily's secret. In the process they give rein to their own 20th century passions, including lust, jealousy, envy, greed and romance. DNA has its own way of telescoping time. This book's greatest value is its potential to motivate young readers to pick up the poems and novels of the three Bronte sisters and read them with fresh eyes
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