“The lives of the Brontës, when displayed with all their infernal humanity—with its ups and downs—locate them as feminist fighters rather than romantic heroines. The singular rescue of Branwell, the brother educated to be what the sisters became (except the sisters didn’t have the privileges he did) illuminates the story through the lens of gender with an extraordinary spark.”

“The Brontës were never so brilliant, such freaks, and so contemporary as in this incredible family portrait by Laura Ramos.”

“Infernales seeks to question the romantic myth to uncover the reality behind women and the construction of an identity: that of the Brontë sisters as professional writers.”

“Laura Ramos puts forth the best possible option to resolve The Brontë Dilemma…And she does so with grace and elegance and passion and ingenuity worthy of their fast-paced novels and imaginary kingdoms…And so, Ramos deserves the best possible commendation: for readers to consider her no less than a member of their family.”

“Ramos’ work allows us to understand the origin of their advanced mentality and, as such, answers one of the other great mysteries surrounding the Brontës: how did three girls in a small English moorland village manage to become the most famous authors of their time?”

“Laura ramos delves into the life and work of the four British authors, their similarities and rivalries, and how Charlotte constructed a sugar-coated myth that was far from the truth.”

“In Infernales, Laura Ramos brings Emily, Charlotte, and Anne away from the image of ignorant women in order to move them closer to what they really were: cultured people with great character, and some of the greatest novelists of their time.”

“The Argentinian writer Laura Ramos publishes a biography of Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell in which she dismantles some of the myths that surrounded this peculiar family of geniuses.”

“Laura Ramos challenges the romantic myth of the three virgin writers lost in a moorland village they never left.”

“The ‘unauthorized’ biography the Brontë siblings deserved.”

“The most complete Spanish-language biography about the three writers and their brother, a cursed poet.”

“An exquisite extraction of the lives that fascinate her to the point of mimicking them with literary desire, Laura Ramos puts forth an exquisite experiment that challenges the biographical and literary canon, written throughout a decade with trips to England included. The result is a majestic, anachronistic, and potent artifact.”

“Infernales is also an investigation that seeks to question the romantic myth to uncover the real women—professional writers—and the construction of an identity. These women were not solitary country girls, they had the willpower of a force of nature.”

“The biography by Ramos is monumental, exhaustive, meticulous…But aside from reconstructing the lives of the siblings and dismantling myths, Ramos puts forth a clarification for how a myth that turns into a phenomenon 200 years later is constructed.”

“Infernales has the dilligence and hard-working valor of the best stitching…And what this unique, infallible book defines is the entirety of the nineteenth century.”

“Infernales, a sort of encyclopedia about the life and work of the emblematic symbols of literature of the 19th century: Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and the forgotten Branwell Brontë.”

“Infernales: la hermandad Brontë is the result of an intense investigation of seven years: mobilizing, challenging, subversive, and provocative.”

“Ramos revalorizes the fourth character in the clan: Branwell, model for the tormented antiheroes in Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. A story of three 19th century vampires (and their victim) told by an Argentinian writer.”

“[To write Infernales, Laura Ramos] read dozens of letters and manuscripts, consulted the Brontë Society, spoke with academics, interviewed townspeople, listened to ghost stories, and ate Yorkshire pudding in a pub.”

“[Infernales] poses one of the biographer’s great moral dilemmas: to what point does the one who writes about another violate the privacy of others? ”

“[Infernales] presents the tormented and passionate life of the Brontës.”

“A documented biography that traces the path of the Brontë siblinghood.”

“Laura Ramos tells [these stories]—and much more—phenomenally well, including the devastating deaths of the three sisters and their brother, in Infernales (Taurus), with a biographical erudition that doesn’t suffocate her narrative desire supported by an austere and measured style, with the peaks of brilliance belonging to a true writer.”