Author

Publication

1988 - Fontana Books [London]: Fontana/Collier, William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., Glasgow, Great Britain

Language

English

Word Count

95,500 words, Guess

Page Count

382 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivedaughterofnorthe0000hain
  • ISBN-100006176011
  • ISBN-139780006176015
  • Amazon', '0261667181
  • LibraryThing615910
and 5 more

Description

**Christabel Woodward is the darling of her prosperous, mill-owning father until one day he has a sudden and bewildering change of heart. He has read her mother's story, written in three exercise books and usually kept well hidden, and he knows her secret: Christabel is not his own child, but the illegitimate daughter of Branwell Bronte.** **Branwell died at thirty-one,** an obsessive and tormented wreck of a man who was ruined by drinking, drug addiction and bouts of depression. All Christabel's mother has left of her secret love are a lock of auburn hair and Branwell's daughter, whom he has never known. ***First published in 1987, Daughter of the Northern Fields is Christabel's story.*** It is the story of a girl who loses all those whom she loves most dearly and is forced to leave the wild Yorkshire moorland which is her home. **A girl who is abused by a shattering rape which leaves her feeling she can never again love or be loved. But Christabel is destined to experience a joy that she had not dared to believe possible.** In this impressive novel Pamela Haines brilliantly captures the atmosphere of the **Brontes' Yorkshire.** With her courage, her indomitable spirit and her depth of feeling, ***Christabel is a creation worthy of the pages of a Bronte novel.***

Description

The story of a girl who loses all those whom she loves most dearly and is forced to leave the Yorkshire moorland which is her home. A girl who is abused by a rape which leaves her feeling she can never love again or be loved.

Subjects

Places

LeedsRussiaHaworthBradfordYorkshireCambridgeLuddenden

People

RomansNapoleonGod. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Poet)

Series Statement

  • Fontana Books [London]

Other Editions

  • Daughter Of The Northern Fields: Author of ''The Kissing Gate''PaperbackFontana Books [London]: Fontana/Collier, William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd.1988-01-01

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