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PBS's <i>To Walk Invisible</i> Finds Fire in the Lives of the Bronte Sisters

The two-hour work, written and directed by <em>Happy Valley</em>’s Sally Wainwright, is a vibrant dramatization of how three sheltered women became such extraordinary novelists.
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When it comes to the Brontë sisters, questions—and mythology—abound. How did three relatively sheltered women, the daughters of a priest living in rural Yorkshire, write some of the most passionate and proto-feminist novels of the 19th century? , a two-hour drama airing on PBS on Sunday, touches on the fascinating contradictions of the Brontës, focusing on the three-year period when the sisters determined to publish their writing as a means of self-preservation. Aware of how they would be judged as

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