Juliet Barker

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

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 …

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.