Authors in Context: The Brontës by Patricia Ingham, Oxford University Press, 2006, 273pp, paperback, ISBN 0-19-284035-5  £7.99
Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insights
The Brontë Society Conference 2004: The Brontës and Education, edited by Bob Duckett, The Brontë Society, 2005, 100pp, paperback, ISBN 1-9030076-09-7   £9.95
Contributors and contents are as follows:
Tom Winnifrith    The Brontës weren’t very good teachers but had the right ideas.
Coreen Turner    “With what eagerness…� Patrick Brontë’s education and his influence on his children. 
Carolyne Van Der Meer   Education in Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Villette.
Margaret Hulmes   The Brontë heroines as disciplinarians.
Yukuri Oda   Wuthering Heights: education as an intermediary factor.
Mary Summers   Parents beware! Anne Brontë’s message on education
Richard Wilcocks   Education, Education, Education: the Brontës today.
Andrew McCarthy   Education at the Parsonage Museum.
Marianne Thormählen   Where we are today: issue resolved and issues outstanding.
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