Juliet Barker

Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England is a book by Juliet Barker.

A critically acclaimed biography of the Bronte+a5 family draws on the letters of the family members, newspaper accounts of the time, and original manuscripts to reveal a talented but troubled family in which its members were at odds with each other in many ways. Reprint. NYT. PW.

An intimate collection of personal correspondence reveals the literary family's authentic voices, detailing the siblings'--Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne--self-absorbed childhood years, struggle to earn a living, and the effects of literary success. Reprint.

In the summer of 1381 England erupted in a violent popular uprising as unexpected as it was unprecedented. Even at this critical moment, contemporaries dismissed vast swaths of people as 'the commons'. Yet the records of the revolt provide a rare opportunity to tell the stories of those once reduced to an amorphous …