On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bront from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bront famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose...
Charlotte Bront famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and with siblings whose astonishing creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman's biography is that it transcends these melancholy facts...