Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate. Although ...
The Bronte sisters never seem to go out of style, thanks to their timeless novels, their untimely deaths and the tragedies that befell them in life and love. Modern readers remain mesmerized by ...
DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - Director of the Dothan Houston County Library System, Chris Warren joined News4 to recommend another book. This month’s Chapter Chat pick is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. Jane ...
If you would, allow me but a moment to…Okay, that’s as far as that intro’s going to go. But please do allow me to tell you about Elizabeth Williamson’s adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel ...
Editor’s note: Madeleine Kearns writes a weekly column noting peculiar aspects of cultural, artistic, and natural marvels. Every English major is familiar with Freudian, Marxist, feminist, and “queer” ...
Charlotte Brontë and Eve Sinclair. St. Martin’s Griffin, $14.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-03270-6 Rather than an all-out retelling, Sinclair’s mashup reads more like Victorian erotica with ...
Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre in 1847, when she was 31 years old, but she was already making books when she was a teenager in West Yorkshire, England. The Young Men’s Magazine, one of six ...
STYLE: How Oscar-winning designer Michael O’Connor brought Charlotte Bronte’s novel to life with a twist on period fashion. By Leslie Bruce Mia Wasikowska's Jane Eyre (arriving at Rochester’s estate, ...
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 ...