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Highlights
- What happens when a passion is turned into a means to survive?
- About the Author: Jordi Mand is a Toronto-based writer for theatre, TV, and film.
- 128 Pages
- Drama, Women Authors
Description
About the Book
Told over five days in the span of three years, the fascinating story of the Brontë sisters' pioneering literary careers unfolds to show what it was like to be an ambitious woman in the 1800s, and how similar it looks to the struggles women still face today.
Book Synopsis
What happens when a passion is turned into a means to survive?
Sisters Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë have always enjoyed writing and storytelling, but so far, it's been for their own personal enjoyment. Now that their father is sick and their brother is an alcoholic, they have to be the ones to support the family. They'd rather focus on their careers than settle down with suitors anyway, so writing is what could save them.
But is it also what could tear them apart? Jealousy, rivalry, and the strong need for self-expression threaten not only their livelihood and relationships but also their confidence in creativity and what could be their legacy.
Review Quotes
"Jordi Mand is a gifted writer. In Brontë The World Without, she not only creates the isolated, confined world in which the Brontë sisters lived and wrote, she also illuminates the mysterious, solitary world of the writer, the obsessive need to create with words. We read the works of the Brontë sisters with new insight and understanding of what it took to create those books because of Jordi Mand's play." --Lynn Slotkin, The Slotkin Letter
About the Author
Jordi Mand is a Toronto-based writer for theatre, TV, and film. Her plays include Between the Sheets, Caught, This Will Be Excellent, and Brontë The World Without. Her work has been produced nationally and internationally and has been published by Playwrights Canada Press. She is a graduate of the Bell Media Prime TV Program at the Canadian Film Centre and the National Theatre School of Canada. Jordi is a writer on the fourth season of the hit CTV crime drama Cardinal and on the upcoming film adaptation of Harriet Alida Lye's thriller The Honey Farm.