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; ...

“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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The biographer recommends reading the life stories of Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, and the Brontës ...

The Life of Emily Brontë benefits from access to the writer’s rediscovered poetry notebook and Lutz’s expert reappraisals of ...

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

Literary scholar Watson explores in his vivid debut biography the mystery and sensation that surrounded Charlotte Brontë. He begins with an account of how literary London was gripped by the ...

Literary biographies are, at heart, mystery stories: The best try to show us, through meticulous tiptoeing through clues, the secret of where a writer’s genius came from. Claire Harman’s “Charlotte ...

Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the documentary flick. Bronte Country: The Life and Times of Three Famous Sisters, Emily, Anne & Charlotte Bronte starring has a NR rating, a ...

April marks the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, and Claire Harman’s new biography offers a compelling look at the famed novelist. One of six children of a Methodist minister and his wife, ...