Who would have guessed that Charlotte and Emily Bronte, the motherless daughters of a country curate, would someday be regarded as two of the best writers in the English language? They lived quiet lives far from sophisticated urban society, never...

by Christine Alexander and Jane Sellars; Cambridge University Press, 1995, $49.95. The interaction of the visual and the literary in Victorian art and writing has long been an object of study for historians of art and scholars of literature: the use of...

Byline: CHRIS SMITH MP Chris Smith walked the Pennines as a teenager, inspired by his love of Emily Bronte's work. In a deeply personal TV documentary, he reveals how it felt to retrace his steps I had forgotten it was there,...

The Texas Youth Commission fired seven employees, including four quality assurance monitors, in response to a report of juvenile inmates living in squalid conditions at a West Texas lockup.Commission Inspector General Bruce Toney said Wednesday that he has opened a criminal investigation into the operations...

Juvenile prison officials ordered the removal of young offenders from a privately run juvenile detention center on Monday, citing unsanitary and unsafe conditions.A Texas Youth Commission official found unsanitary conditions at the Coke County Juvenile Justice Center in Bronte after a Sept. 24 visit. A...