Charlotte Bronte by Claire Harman

Charlotte Bronte by Claire Harman

Charlotte Bront famously lived her life in a parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and creative siblings. Claire Harman's biography transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to rebellion and ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previous biographers, Harman depicts Charlotte's inner life with absorbing, novelistic intensity. She seizes upon a moment in Charlotte's adolescence that ignited her determination: while working at a school in Brussels, Charlotte fell in love with her married professor, a man who treated her as nothing special. She channeled her torment into her first novel and resolved to bring it to the world's attention.Jane Eyre set London abuzz with speculation: Who was this fiery author demanding love and justice for her plain heroine? Charlotte Bront 's blazingly intelligent women with hidden passions would transform English literature.Charlotte Bront is a groundbreaking view of the beloved writer as a young woman ahead of her time. Shaped by Charlotte's lifelong struggle to claim love for herself, Harman's richly insightful biography offers readers many of the pleasures of Bront 's own work.

CLAIRE HARMAN is the author of Sylvia Townsend Warner, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize; Fanny Burney; Myself and the Other Fellow: A Life of Robert Louis Stevenson; and Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and has taught at the Universities of Oxford and Manchester in England and Columbia University in New York. The author lives in Brooklyn, NY and Cambridge, England.

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ISBN 13	9780307962089
ISBN 10	0307962083
Title	Charlotte Bronte
Author	Claire Harman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Knopf Publishing Group
Year published	2016-03-01
Number of pages	480
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