May Sinclair

This book deals with the life history and writings of three great female authors: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, who all died relatively young. These three daughters of a poor country clergyman, published, at the beginning, their poems and novels under male pseudonyms, like many contemporary female writers; before to become famous all over the world. "It is impossible to write of the three Brontës and forget the place they lived in, the black-grey, naked village, bristling like a rampart on the clean edge of the moor; the street, dark and steep as a gully, climbing the hill to the Parsonage at the top; the small oblong house, naked and grey, hemmed in on two sides by the graveyard, its five windows flush with the wall, staring at the graveyard where the tombstones, grey and naked, are set so close that the grass hardly grows between.
The church itself is a burying ground; its walls are tombstones, and its floor roofs the forgotten and the unforgotten dead."...