The Bronte sisters never seem to go out of style, thanks to their timeless novels, their untimely deaths and the tragedies that befell them in life and love. Modern readers remain mesmerized by ...

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In “The Invention of Charlotte Brontë,” Graham Watson returns to the familiar narrative but gives it room to breathe, ...

Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate. Although ...

“Jane Eyre” contains one of the most revolutionary statements in world literature, explaining why Charlotte Brontë remains an indispensable writer: “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be ...

When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855 a few weeks short of her 39th birthday, a prevailing perception was that the author of “Jane Eyre,” “Villette” and “Shirley” had lived a life of fruitless love and ...

A miniature unpublished manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old will go on sale for $1.25 million at a New York City book fair later this month. The work titled “A Book of ...

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; ...

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Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate. Although ...