Wonderful assortment of photographs of SIXTY items in the Parsonage Museum published on the SIXTIETH anniversary of the Museum's founding. Some of the items are of the "filler" sort – letters and other writings, which are vitally important to Brontë studies but as photographs are "see-one-see-them-all" – but some "filler" has to be expected in a compendium of this sort.

Several excellent art works, including a floral painting by Charlotte, and it's especially nice to see drawings of Flossy (Anne's King Charles Spaniel) and Grasper (Emily's dog before Keeper). Somehow the notorious Keeper gets all the Brontëan attention because of his depiction as "Tartar" in Shirley.

The lead author, Juliet Barker, is the author of the great Brontë biography, Wild Genius of the Moors, as well as a comparable Wordsworth biography and several medieval studies of relevance to Shakespearean history plays (Richard II, Henry V, 1 Henry VI). ( )