Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

On the two hundredth anniversary of her birth, a landmark biography transforms Charlotte BrontÃ« from a tragic figure into a modern heroine.
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Charlotte BrontÃ« 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 Harmanâ€™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 Charlotteâ€™s inner life with absorbing, almost novelistic intensity. She seizes upon a moment in Charlotteâ€™s adolescence that ignited her determination to reject poverty and obscurity: While working at a girlsâ€™ school in Brussels, Charlotte fell in love with her married professor, Constantin Heger, a man who treated her as â€œnothing special to him at all.â€ 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 sistersâ€™ work to publication, too. But Emilyâ€™s Wuthering Heights was eclipsed by Jane Eyre, which set London abuzz with speculation: Who was this fiery author demanding love and justice for her plain and insignificant heroine? Charlotte BrontÃ«â€™s blazingly intelligent women brimming with hidden passions would transform English literature. And she savored her literary success even as a heartrending series of personal losses followed.

Charlotte BrontÃ« is a groundbreaking view of the beloved writer as a young woman ahead of her time. Shaped by Charlotteâ€™s lifelong struggle to claim love and art for herself, Harmanâ€™s richly insightful biography offers readers many of the pleasures of BrontÃ«â€™s own work.

From the Hardcover edition.
Country USA
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-03-01
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2016-03-01
Format	Kindle eBook

Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart

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