BIBFRAME Work

Title

Brontë's mistress

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Austin, Finola (author)

Subject

• Brontë, Patrick Branwell, 1817-1848 (FAST)
• Grief (LCSH)
• Yorkshire (England)--History--19th century (LCSH)
• May-December romances (LCSH)
• 1800-1899 (FAST)
• Self-realization in women (LCSH)
• May-December romances (FAST)
• Adultery (LCSH)
• Tutors and tutoring (FAST)
• Man-woman relationships (LCSH)
• Tutors and tutoring (LCSH)
• Brontë, Patrick Branwell, 1817-1848 (LCNAF)
• Man-woman relationships (FAST)
• Adultery (FAST)
• Self-realization in women (FAST)
• England--Yorkshire (FAST)
• Grief (FAST)

Genre Form

• Fiction (LCGFT)
• Historical fiction (LCGFT)
• Novels (LCGFT)
• 1411628 (FAST)
• Fiction (FAST)
• Historical fiction (FAST)

Language

• English

Classification

• DDC: 813.6
• LCC: PS3601.U858 B76 2021 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Summary

Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson - mistress of Thorp Green Hall, has lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinising her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more. All of that changes with the arrival of her son's tutor, Branwell Bronte--brother of her daughters' governess, Miss Anne Bronte and those other writerly sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Branwell has his own demons to contend with - including living up to the ideals of his intelligent family - but his presence is a breath of fresh air for Lydia. Handsome, passionate, and uninhibited by social conventions, he's also twenty-five to her forty-three. A love of poetry, music, and theatre bring mistress and tutor together, and Branwell's colourful tales of his sisters' elaborate play-acting and made-up worlds form the backdrop for seduction. But Lydia's new taste of passion comes with consequences. As Branwell's inner turmoil rises to the surface, his behaviour grows erratic and dangerous, and whispers of their passionate relationship spout from her servants' lips, reaching all three protective Bronte sisters. Soon, it falls on Lydia to save not just her reputation, but her way of life, before those clever girls reveal all her secrets in their novels. Unfortunately, she might be too late.

Authorized Access Point

Austin, Finola. Brontë's mistress

Geographic Coverage

• England

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11T20:21:22.595342+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 23642084

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-11
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc