Brontes: Charlotte Bronte and Her Family

by Rebecca Fraser

Book Overview

"A fresh and modern view of Charlotte Bronte--as a woman searching for love and as a writer who helped change society's perceptions about her sex. Her moving, eloquent portrait will interest not only... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449904652
• ISBN13: 9780449904657
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Length: 16 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A bio that reads like a novel

What a wonderful biography--it was as much of a page-turner as novel, because the Brontes were such an unusual, strange set of people. I learned a lot about the Brontes that I hadn't known, and the book illuminated C.B.'s novels for me. C.B. herself became much clearer to me as a person and I felt almost overwhelmed with sympathy for her. I'm awed by the immense courage she showed in everything she did--in leaving Haworth to go to Brussels, in going out as a governess, in getting her and her sisters' works out to the public, in visiting London as a famous author, and in just continuing to live and have hope after the crushing blows of her siblings' deaths one after another. Emily, too, is fascinating, both shy and wild, like an animal. The sense of tragedy hangs over the whole book because they all, except for the father, died so young. Charlotte outlived her mother and all her siblings, but she was only 39 when she died. I heartily recommend this biography.

Wonderful book!

This is probably one of the best biographies of Charlotte Bronte. A heartbreaking story.