This book gives a good overview of the lives of the Bronte family, including parents and other siblings apaprt from the three famous sisters - especially the father and brother. The reader gets a feeling for the struggles the family had to go through concerning education and social life. Haworth seems such an unlikely place for a family which seems to have put so much stress on intellectual development and the arts. The book also shines a light on the friendship of Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell, her first biographer. It points out how much this famous friend did for the proper reception of the sisters' works, but also for the sinister reputation of the father. All in all, I now desperately want to visit the Bronte Museum in Haworth.