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Bredline Books
Brotherly
Sisters
Scenes from the Lives and Loves of the Brontes
Told In Narrative
Poetry
Terence Pettigrew
For the first time, poetry has been used to tell the story of the Brontes. Based upon published biographies and other
archive material, Brotherly Sisters describes their early writings and later masterpieces. Through
over sixty narrative poems, it retells several major incidents in their lives which brought them joy and sorrow, triumph and
tragedy.
It provides evocative word pictures of the landscape, and of the wild moors which they loved and which
provided the background to many of their classic books. In addition to its 15,000 words of narrative poetry, Brotherly
Sisters contains a summary of their lives which references each poem to its place in the narrative. It also
contains colour plates of some of the best-known portraits of the Brontes, along with photographs taken by the author on his
many trips to Yorkshire during the preparation of this book.
Terence Pettigrew is
a writer who enjoys solitude. He is a solitary man who cuts himself adrift from everything and everyone several times every
year. In the brooding wilderness of Connemara, amid the rolling dales of Yorkshire, or high on a mountain slope in the north
of Scotland, this is where you'll find him, if you care to look.
Only when we are close to nature, he says,
can the emotions run free. Elation and despair. Ecstacy and loss. These are the things he knows and understands. These are
subjects close to his heart, to which he brings a poet's incisive vision. His writing can be harsh and hurtful, like jagged
stones slicing through calm water. Or soft and tender, like a May morning.
And now he turns his attention to the
Brontes. They created word tapestries which lingered in the mind. They knew about elation and despair, ecstacy and loss. Their
writing could be harsh and hurtful, too. Brotherly Sisters is their story seen through his eyes.
If you knew him, you would know why he had to write it.
Note :
Check out Terence
Pettigrew's writing career in Wikipedia on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Pettigrew
Also visit his poetry site ("A Cage To Hold Our Dreams") on www.poetrypoem.com/terencepettigrew
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