![]() Charlotte and Emily Bronte, among the first women writers to have become celebrities and icons, have already inspired other novelists to reimagine the lives of their characters Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea and various fictions about the life of Heathcliff are examples. ![]() But demythologizing serves only to modify the myth, not end it. In the process of creating the myth, first comes literature, then death, then biography, then popular culture, and then cultural history, or, as Miller calls it, meta-biography. A similar fate has befallen Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath, whose lives and works have also become the starting points for new meta-biographical studies by Brenda Silver and Janet Malcolm, as well as for new novels by Michael Cunningham ( The Hours) and Kate Moses ( Wintering). ![]() ![]() Of course Miller herself cannot help contributing to the perpetuation of this critical cycle. ![]()
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