A bookseller in California has uncovered unpublished works by one of the most significant and popular Victorian writers, Charlotte Brontë, wedged between the pages of a biography formerly owned by the ...
“Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart” by Claire Harman, Knopf, $30, 480 pages, hardcover April marks the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, and Claire Harman’s new biography offers a compelling ...
Charlotte Brontë’s attraction to the strange and horrific was an early vehicle for her love of storytelling. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons, V.M. Braganza and the Internet ...
"Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart" (Alfred A. Knopf) by Claire Harman Two hundred years after her birth, Charlotte Bronte's rage over social expectations for women and thwarted ambitions are as ...
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Credit...From "Charlotte Bronte Before Jane Eyre." Glynnis Fawkes’s graphic biography of Charlotte Brontë opens with the 20-year-old aspiring writer receiving a ...
Fawkes’s lively biography of Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) depicts the formation of a writing life with wit and insight. The three Brontë sisters, along with their brother Branwell, spend much of their ...
Since 1857, when Elizabeth Gaskell published The Life of Charlotte Bronte, the legend of Charlotte and Emily Bronte as tragically stifled geniuses has grown to compete with the popularity of their ...
When Charlotte Brontë was 14 years old, she wrote a trio of stories for a tiny handmade book set in the fictional town of Glass Town, West Africa. Titled The Young Men’s Magazine, the matchbook-sized ...
Two hundred years after her birth, Charlotte Bronte's rage over social expectations for women and thwarted ambitions are as relevant as ever, and a new biography by Claire Harman makes the "Jane Eyre" ...