LEADER 03941nam 2200577 450 001 9910797857203321 005 20230808212451.0 010 $a1-78284-258-6 010 $a1-78284-256-X 035 $a(CKB)3710000000500121 035 $a(EBL)4306792 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001571554 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16217880 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001571554 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13362768 035 $a(PQKB)11478556 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4306792 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4306792 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11137854 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL848599 035 $a(OCoLC)935255279 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000500121 100 $a20150902d2016 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWinifred Ge?rin $ebiographer of the Bronte?s /$fHelen MacEwan 210 1$aBrighton ;$aChicago :$cSussex Academic Press,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (285 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84519-743-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Norwood: Childhood and the End of Childhood; 2 Paris 1913: 'The most splendid adventure'; 3 Sydenham: The Great War Years; 4 Cambridge: 'Bill' and 'Q'; 5 Holidays in France: 'Plom' and Cannes; 6 Paris Idyll: 1932-1939; 7 Flight from Brussels: The Summer of 1940; 8 Nice: The Pit of Darkness; 9 Aspley Guise: Political Intelligence; 10 West Cromwell Road: The Long Road Back; 11 Haworth: 'Bronte? Atmosphere'; 12 Haworth: Recognition at Last; 13 Kensington: The Final Fifteen Years; Epilogue 327 $aBibliographyIndex; Back Cover 330 $a"The biographer Winifred Ge?rin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte? siblings, stumbled on her literary vocation on a visit to Haworth, after a difficult decade following the death of her first husband. On the same visit she met her second husband, a Bronte? enthusiast twenty years her junior. Together they turned their backs on London to live within sight of the Parsonage, Ge?rin believing that full understanding of the Bronte?s required total immersion in their environment. Ge?rin's childhood and youth, like the Bronte?s, was characterised by a cultured home and an intense imaginative life shared with her sister and two brothers, and by family tragedies (the loss of two siblings in early life). Strong cultural influences formed the children's imagination: polyglot parents, French history, the Crystal Palace, Old Vic productions. Winifred's years at Newnham College, Cambridge were enlivened by such eccentric characters as the legendary lecturer Arthur Quiller-Couch ('Q'), Lytton Strachey's sister Pernel, and Bloomsbury's favourite philosopher, G.E. Moore. Her happy life in Paris with her Belgian cellist husband, Euge?ne Ge?rin, was brought to an abrupt end by the Second World War, during which the couple had many adventures: fleeing occupied Belgium, saving Jews in Vichy France, and escaping through Spain and Portugal to England, where they did secret war work for the Political Intelligence Department near Bletchley Park. After Euge?ne's death in 1945 Winifred coped with bereavement by writing poetry and plays until discovering her true literary metier on her visit to Haworth"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aWomen biographers$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aBiography as a literary form 615 0$aWomen biographers 615 0$aBiography as a literary form. 676 $a809/.93592 686 $aLIT003000$aLIT004120$2bisacsh 700 $aMacEwan$b Helen$01534447 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797857203321 996 $aWinifred Ge?rin$93782027 997 $aUNINA