The romantic period knows no more fascinating literary family than the Brontes.

在浪漫主义时期，没有比勃朗特家族更杰出的文学家族了。

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His idea that the brontes' lives were uniformly "dreary" also seems ridiculous now that individual biographies of the family have multiplied.

他认为勃朗特姐妹的生活完全“可怕”的观点也很可笑，现在有关她们生活的传记正在成倍地增长。

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She added: 'I dress as Charlotte because the other Brontes were quite young when they died and I'm 49.

她还表示：“我打扮成夏洛蒂，是因为其他两位勃朗特姐妹都是在很年轻的时候过世，而我今年都49岁了。”

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The second half is more tongue in cheek, closer to "Buffy" than the Brontes.

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Mr Kelly points out that apart from a modern intrusion in the form of Harry Potter, the top 10 is dominated by the literary canon in the shape of the Brontes, Orwell and Tolkien.

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"The Brontes grew up used to seeing their father's books on the shelves of the parsonage, " says Andrew McCarthy, director of the Bronte Parsonage Museum in the family's former home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.

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