The New Leader, December 10th, 1990
EMILY BRONTE'S PRISON SOMEBODY ALWAYS seems to be writing another study of the Brontes. In Cold Comfort Farm, her brilliant satire of the rural British novel, Stella Gibbons mocked the obsession with reinterpreting the remarkable family when she created "Mr. Mybug," the arty devotee of D.H. Lawrence. This literary poseur tells everyone who will listen his theory that Branwell Bronte actually ghosted his sisters' poems and novels to pay for their addiction to gin, while pretending to be a lush himself to save their reputations. One agrees with Gibbons' heroine that, far-fetched as the notion m...
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