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5065923The Bronte Girlhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-bronte-girl-9781915758149/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4606316/image.jpg?v=638689473647630000143159MXNGandhiInStock/Ebooks/<p>Readers who love YA historical fiction will fall in love with Kate Roper, a 15 year old girl from Haworth, West Yorkshire, who finds herself working at the Parsonage, home to Reverend Bronte and his four children, Bramwell, Charlotte, Emily and Anne.</p><p>"I am just going to write because I cannot help it."<br />Charlotte Bront</p><p>October 19th, 1846. Kate felt as though the date was etched upon her heart forever.</p><p>When Mother and her beloved twin brothers are taken by the Haworth miasma, Father<br />drowns his sorrow in drink and younger sister Lizzie begins to run wild. It is left to Kate at<br />only fifteen to keep her family out of the dreaded workhouse.<br />She is offered a cleaning job at the Parsonage, home of Reverend Bront, his son Branwell<br />and the three Bront sisters, Charlotte, Anne, and Emily.<br />Kate harbours a secret; to write for the famous Blackwood Magazine, but poverty and<br />gender are against her. Luke, a farmers son, has dreams of being an engineer, and wants to<br />marry Kate but believes writing stories is a waste of time. One day whilst repairing the fire in<br />the Parsonage sitting room, Kate sees a small volume of Shakespeare on the shelf. She<br />decides to borrow it, only to be caught by Charlotte Bront. When Miss Charlotte discovers<br />Kates passion for books, a friendship begins to develop. Charlotte and her sister Anne fill<br />Kates head with ideas of equality between women and men. "Women feel just as men feel,"<br />declares Miss Charlotte. Kate confides in Charlotte that she writes and is encouraged to see<br />her writing as more than just a dream. Kate also begins to spot clues that the Bront sisters<br />are writing novels.<br />Then she meets Seth, an artist, on the moor with equally free ideas about women and men.<br />Now Kate is faced with a dilemma. Marriage to the dependable Luke or a new independent<br />life, influenced by Seth and his artist friends.<br />The novel ends a year after it opens with Kate making the biggest decision of her life.<br />Miriam Halahmy has written a novel which brings the Bronts alive for a new generation of<br />readers. Themes of womens rights, the harsh realities of poverty and inequality are<br />illuminated in uncluttered, beautiful character-driven storytelling and through it all shines<br />the indomitable spirit of the human soul. In a world of increasing inequality and global<br />attacks on womens rights, this is a novel for our time.</p>...4792567The Bronte Girl143159https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-bronte-girl-9781915758149/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4606316/image.jpg?v=638689473647630000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781915758149_W3siaWQiOiIyM2NmMjE2MC0xOTI4LTQwM2QtYjlhNS1hYTc5MjQ4NWEyOWQiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjE1OSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjE2LCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjE0MywiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjQtMTItMDRUMDA6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9781915758149_<p>Readers who love YA historical fiction will fall in love with Kate Roper, a 15 year old girl from Haworth, West Yorkshire, who finds herself working at the Parsonage, home to Reverend Bronte and his four children, Bramwell, Charlotte, Emily and Anne.</p><p>"I am just going to write because I cannot help it."<br />Charlotte Bront</p><p>October 19th, 1846. Kate felt as though the date was etched upon her heart forever.</p><p>When Mother and her beloved twin brothers are taken by the Haworth miasma, Father<br />drowns his sorrow in drink and younger sister Lizzie begins to run wild. It is left to Kate at<br />only fifteen to keep her family out of the dreaded workhouse.<br />She is offered a cleaning job at the Parsonage, home of Reverend Bront, his son Branwell<br />and the three Bront sisters, Charlotte, Anne, and Emily.<br />Kate harbours a secret; to write for the famous Blackwood Magazine, but poverty and<br />gender are against her. Luke, a farmers son, has dreams of being an engineer, and wants to<br />marry Kate but believes writing stories is a waste of time. One day whilst repairing the fire in<br />the Parsonage sitting room, Kate sees a small volume of Shakespeare on the shelf. She<br />decides to borrow it, only to be caught by Charlotte Bront. When Miss Charlotte discovers<br />Kates passion for books, a friendship begins to develop. Charlotte and her sister Anne fill<br />Kates head with ideas of equality between women and men. "Women feel just as men feel,"<br />declares Miss Charlotte. Kate confides in Charlotte that she writes and is encouraged to see<br />her writing as more than just a dream. Kate also begins to spot clues that the Bront sisters<br />are writing novels.<br />Then she meets Seth, an artist, on the moor with equally free ideas about women and men.<br />Now Kate is faced with a dilemma. Marriage to the dependable Luke or a new independent<br />life, influenced by Seth and his artist friends.<br />The novel ends a year after it opens with Kate making the biggest decision of her life.<br />Miriam Halahmy has written a novel which brings the Bronts alive for a new generation of<br />readers. Themes of womens rights, the harsh realities of poverty and inequality are<br />illuminated in uncluttered, beautiful character-driven storytelling and through it all shines<br />the indomitable spirit of the human soul. In a world of increasing inequality and global<br />attacks on womens rights, this is a novel for our time.</p>...9781915758149_ZunToldlibro_electonico_9781915758149_9781915758149Miriam HalahmyInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/faberfactory-epub-5b224c1d-6e40-42d2-b550-ca7f1dee31f0.epub2024-03-24T00:00:00+00:00ZunTold