Professor Maddalena De Leo’s Italian novel Mai
più in oscurità is
now available in English. Its title is Removing the shroud of mystery and can be easily found and bought on
the site: www.lulu.com by typing the name of
its author or the title of the book in the space on the right of the page.
The novel is about Maria Branwell’s life and marks the 200th
anniversary of the Brontë parents’ wedding (1812-2012). Professor De Leo says
in her Preface:
The early death of the Brontës’ mother and her birth in Cornwall, a
land rich in myths and Celtic legends has always fascinated me. As a long time
Brontë scholar, I recently visited Cornwall and Penzance, the towns where she
was born and lived as a girl. Staying in this fabled land opened up to me a
wealth of information, curiosities, doubts and speculations on a character
still enshrouded in mystery.
My resources information and my own imagination
enabled me to render a true portrait of Maria Branwell’s early life. Beginning
with the first biographical episode dating from, I pieced together a
biographical sketch starting from February 1850. This was when Charlotte Brontë
was given by her father a small parcel of letters addressed to him by his
future wife Maria during their engagement.I thought that maybe Charlotte Brontë
conceived the ideas for her juvenile literature through this. In the diary
Maria might have recorded the most significant episodes of her life so as to
leave something of herself to posterity.
In the appendix I have included the unabridged text of the
authentic letters by Maria Branwell not published since 1914 when they appeared
in Clement Shorter’s book. Through this work I hope I put this precious jewel in its rightful place
in the Brontë mosaic.
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Maddalena De Leo
Removing the shroud of mystery
pp.128
ISBN 978-1-291-05861-1
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