Friday, November 13, 2015

Charlotte Brontë: a Life by Claire Harman, review: a fresh look at a fragmentary life

Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond
Charlotte Brontë by George Richmond Credit: alamy

This is the first substantial biography of Charlotte Brontë to be published since Lyndall Gordon’s A Passionate Life (1994), a thrillingly speculative portrait of a woman forced into a life of hiding by questions she only dared ask in her fiction. This new Life, published in advance of the bicentenary next April, takes in the more complex and faltering picture that emerged from Charlotte Brontë’s letters (published between 1995 and 2004), as well as paying fresh attention to her juvenilia.
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