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Charlotte Brontë

A Life
ID 331004
Slug charlotte-bronte-claire-harman
Contributors
Author : Claire Harman
Annotation
Description <p>'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.</p>
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Subjects
300 Literaire fictie algemeen NUR
NSTC
Publisher PENGUIN GROUP
Imprint
Language eng
Page count 464
Duration
Publication date first 2016-04-07
Publication date latest 2016-04-07
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  • ISBN: 9780241963661 (BC)

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