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New Accademic Research connecting the Brontës and Shelleyan circle

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The Shelleyan Brontes, J.E. Young. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment & Cultures of Print.

Exciting New Accademic Research from the first scholar to connect the significant
influence of Mary & Percy Shelley to the Brontes.

Considered esential reading for 19th-century print culture and the legacy of the Romantics.

Library

An alumnai of Cambridge University Dr. Young's exciting research and educational studies are comended by The Bronte Society's review:

'There is a great deal to recomendrecommend about this book...facinating'

'valuable treasure trove of source material'

'The case presented for reading the Brontes as heirs to the Shelleys is both informed and rewarding'

'much needed re-evaluations on an underappreciated source of inspiration'

'essential reading ... in nineteenth century print culture and the legacy of the Romantics on the Brontes'

- Sarah Woodson, Book Review, Bronte Studies. 50 (3) 345-347

Publications

The Shelleyan Brontes (2024) published by Palgrave Macmillian is the first sustained examination of how the Bronte siblings 'rewrote' the textual Shelley's to create their own unique literary voices. Focusing on the Brontes as readers being deeply influenced by the Shelleys, engaging their works from childhood through to their final novels. Supported by research conducted at the Bronte Parsonage Museum, and university archives in Britain and Paris.