“Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart” by Claire Harman, Knopf, $30, 480 pages, hardcover April marks the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, and Claire Harman’s new biography offers a compelling ...

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“Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart” (Alfred A. Knopf) by Claire Harman Two hundred years after her birth, Charlotte Bronte’s rage over social expectations for women and thwarted ambitions are as ...

There’s a moment halfway through Claire Harman’s superb new biography of Charlotte Brontë when it hits you just how quickly the whole Brontë phenomenon erupted and was over. In 1844, sisters Charlotte ...

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A bookseller in California has uncovered unpublished works by one of the most significant and popular Victorian writers, Charlotte Brontë, wedged between the pages of a biography formerly owned by the ...

One tipsy night long ago, when I was a graduate student in literature at the University of South Florida, several female friends and I came up with a deep theory of literature. It went like this: If ...

April 21 marks the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth and is the occasion for the publication of another biography of a writer who has captured readers’ imagination quite as much as her ...

Two hundred years after her birth, Charlotte Bront.'s rage over social expectations for women and thwarted ambitions are as relevant as ever, and a new biography by Claire Harman makes the "Jane Eyre" ...

The contours of the Brontë story have been burnished over time into legend: those bleak, wind-swept moors; that isolated West Yorkshire parsonage; the children whose sole playmates were one another; ...