Charlotte Bront

Winner of the Cheltenham Prize for Literature

In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art.

''An exemplary biography'' Jan Marsh, New Statesman

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