Presents a biography of the three Bronte sisters, Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, and their lives growing up on the moors of Enland inventing stories with their brother, Branwell, which led them each to write their famous books "Jane Eyre," "Wuthering Heights," and "Agnes Grey.".

"Oh God, my poor children!" -- "Bend inclination to duty" -- "What on earth is half so dear?" -- "Who ever rose--without ambition?" -- "A peculiar music" -- "It is soul speaking to soul" -- "Moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath" -- A dreadful darkness closes in" -- "Out of obscurity I came" -- "I should fancy I heard the steps of the dead" -- Afterword: "Alas!".