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Charlotte Bronte Author: Claire Harman

ISBN: 9780307962089 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 480 Published: 1 March 2016 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 23.6 x 15.5 x 4.1 Description: On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte Bronte from a tragic figure into a modern heroine. Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and siblings whose astonishing childhood creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman s biography is that it transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to quiet rebellion and fierce ambition.

Drawing on letters unavailable to previous biographers, Harman depicts Charlotte s inner life with absorbing, almost novelistic intensity. She seizes upon a moment in Charlotte s adolescence that ignited her determination to reject poverty and obscurity: While working at a girls school in Brussels, Charlotte fell in love with her married professor, Constantin Heger, a man who treated her as nothing special to him at all. She channeled her torment into her first attempts at a novel and resolved to bring it to the world's attention. Charlotte helped power her sisters work to publication, too. But Emily's "Wuthering Heights" was eclipsed by "...

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