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Charlotte Bronte Biography
Claire Harman
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Description for Charlotte Bronte Biography
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The definitive biography of an extraordinary novelist, by acclaimed literary biographer Claire Harman 'There was no possibility of taking a walk that day . . .' With these words Charlotte Bronte began Jane Eyre and changed English literature irrevocably. Now, on the 200th anniversary of Charlotte's birth, Claire Harman's landmark biography provides a bold new view of one of Britain's best loved writers, uncovering an inner life that touched the furthest extremes of human emotion. Harman shows us an intense and troubled young woman from an astonishingly creative family, whose early works were produced in total secrecy. Struggling against the conventional limitations of both life and literature, Charlotte created a new kind of heroine which both shocked and inspired her Victorian contemporaries. Love, loss, ambition and heartbreak: the anonymous author poured everything into her ground-breaking books, but lived it first.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241963661
SKU
V9780241963661
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99-99
About Claire Harman
Claire Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner (1989), Fanny Burney (2000) and Robert Louis Stevenson (2005) and the author of the best-selling Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World (2009). She writes regularly for the literary press on both sides of the Atlantic and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006. Her most recent work is Charlotte Bronte: A Life.
Reviews for Charlotte Bronte Biography
Harman brings a fresh eye to many of the same papers studied by Gaskell to compile her Charlotte Bronte: A Life. The Gothic atmosphere and heart-breaking details remain, but Harman achieves a great feat by making the story seem new again
Marcus Field, Independent A subtle, measured biography, full of insight into Bronte's fiery intellect as well as the tragic intensity of her experience
Helen Dunmore, Observer Prepare to suffer similar time-loss at the hands of Harman, Bronte's most recent biographer and a master storyteller in her own right. Level-headed, highly readable and always intelligent, Harman's account of Bronte's life and work is a delight from start to finish
Sunday Times
Harman renders her daring novels fresh, interweaving what shocked critics then with what surprises us still
Sunday Telegraph
A substantial biography (...) that lets the disparate pieces speak for themselves
Daily Telegraph
An immensely readable biography
Woman and Home
A vigorous new biography (...) Harman does a splendid job
Mail on Sunday
[An] excellent new bicentennial biography....Ms. Harman writes with warmth and a fine understanding of Ms. Bronte's literary significance. Above all, she is a storyteller, with a sense of pace and timing, relish for a good scene and a wry sense of humour
Economist
Three rounds of applause...for Claire Harman's superb retelling of Charlotte's story
Mark Bostridge, The Spectator Revelatory (...) adds freshness and texture to her account with original speculations. As someone who once wrote a book about the Brontes' afterlives, few people can have read as many biographies of them as I have. I thought I was Bronte-ed out, but reading this book-which will be equally accessible to someone coming to Charlotte for the first time-has drawn me back in
Lucasta Miller, The Independent
Elegant, sensitive, beautifully paced and moving. [Claire Harman] has... produced a work that is affirmative, edifying, inspiring and humane
Sunday Express
Full of pleasing and piquant detail, scraps of passing recollection assembled from the various lives and letters in which the Brontes featured and from which we might reconstruct their world
Financial Times
Harman tells [Charlotte's] story with quick wit, a sharp sympathy, and a fire and fury of her own
Evening Standard
Superb retelling of Charlotte's story (...) admirably concise
The Spectator
Harman... portrays Bronte's complexity and dark genius in elegant prose with deep human sympathy
The Lady
This is a comprehensive biography to enjoy and admire. Harman writes well and she is a fine and sensitive critic
The Times
Elegantly written, consistently perceptive...[Harman] succeeds in bringing Charlotte back to life in all her spiky vulnerability
Daily Mail Book of the Week
Finely judged and authoritative
Sunday Times Book of the Week
Harman's sane, unshowy re-telling is exactly right for the bicentenary next April. The result is a retooled classic biographical narrative, shipshape and serviceable for the next 200 years
The Guardian
Marcus Field, Independent A subtle, measured biography, full of insight into Bronte's fiery intellect as well as the tragic intensity of her experience
Helen Dunmore, Observer Prepare to suffer similar time-loss at the hands of Harman, Bronte's most recent biographer and a master storyteller in her own right. Level-headed, highly readable and always intelligent, Harman's account of Bronte's life and work is a delight from start to finish
Sunday Times
Harman renders her daring novels fresh, interweaving what shocked critics then with what surprises us still
Sunday Telegraph
A substantial biography (...) that lets the disparate pieces speak for themselves
Daily Telegraph
An immensely readable biography
Woman and Home
A vigorous new biography (...) Harman does a splendid job
Mail on Sunday
[An] excellent new bicentennial biography....Ms. Harman writes with warmth and a fine understanding of Ms. Bronte's literary significance. Above all, she is a storyteller, with a sense of pace and timing, relish for a good scene and a wry sense of humour
Economist
Three rounds of applause...for Claire Harman's superb retelling of Charlotte's story
Mark Bostridge, The Spectator Revelatory (...) adds freshness and texture to her account with original speculations. As someone who once wrote a book about the Brontes' afterlives, few people can have read as many biographies of them as I have. I thought I was Bronte-ed out, but reading this book-which will be equally accessible to someone coming to Charlotte for the first time-has drawn me back in
Lucasta Miller, The Independent
Elegant, sensitive, beautifully paced and moving. [Claire Harman] has... produced a work that is affirmative, edifying, inspiring and humane
Sunday Express
Full of pleasing and piquant detail, scraps of passing recollection assembled from the various lives and letters in which the Brontes featured and from which we might reconstruct their world
Financial Times
Harman tells [Charlotte's] story with quick wit, a sharp sympathy, and a fire and fury of her own
Evening Standard
Superb retelling of Charlotte's story (...) admirably concise
The Spectator
Harman... portrays Bronte's complexity and dark genius in elegant prose with deep human sympathy
The Lady
This is a comprehensive biography to enjoy and admire. Harman writes well and she is a fine and sensitive critic
The Times
Elegantly written, consistently perceptive...[Harman] succeeds in bringing Charlotte back to life in all her spiky vulnerability
Daily Mail Book of the Week
Finely judged and authoritative
Sunday Times Book of the Week
Harman's sane, unshowy re-telling is exactly right for the bicentenary next April. The result is a retooled classic biographical narrative, shipshape and serviceable for the next 200 years
The Guardian