From landscapes to Luddites and from Heathcliff to Stancliffe's Hotel, The Oxford Companion to the Brontes provides comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date information about the lives, works, and afterlives of the Brontes -- Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte, and their father and brother -- all of whom were published writers. It is the first time so much information about the family has been gathered together in an accessible A-Z volume. The story of the Brontes has become a myth: three women living on the wild Yorkshire moors, writing works of strange genius. Charlotte Bronte claimed that her sister Emily's novel Wuthering Heights was 'hewn in a wild workshop'. Inspired by a deep love of nature and an intensely private imagination it certainly was, but Emily's novel, like those of her sisters, is embedded in 19th-century society and debates. The Brontes lived in a thriving mill town. They read widely and eclectically, devouring the latest newspapers and journals. This Compan...