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.
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.
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*
Finely judged and authoritative
*Sunday Times Book of the Week*
Elegantly written, consistently perceptive...[Harman] succeeds in
bringing Charlotte back to life in all her spiky vulnerability
*Daily Mail Book of the Week*
This is a comprehensive biography to enjoy and admire. Harman
writes well and she is a fine and sensitive critic
*The Times*
Harman... portrays Bronte's complexity and dark genius in elegant
prose with deep human sympathy
*The Lady*
Superb retelling of Charlotte's story (...) admirably concise
*The Spectator*
Harman tells [Charlotte's] story with quick wit, a sharp sympathy,
and a fire and fury of her own
*Evening Standard*
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*
Elegant, sensitive, beautifully paced and moving. [Claire Harman]
has... produced a work that is affirmative, edifying, inspiring and
humane
*Sunday Express*
Revelatory (...) adds freshness and texture to her account with
original speculations. As someone who once wrote a book about the
Brontës' afterlives, few people can have read as many biographies
of them as I have. I thought I was Brontë-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*
Three rounds of applause...for Claire Harman's superb retelling of
Charlotte's story
*Mark Bostridge, The Spectator*
[An] excellent new bicentennial biography....Ms. Harman writes with
warmth and a fine understanding of Ms. Brontë'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*
A vigorous new biography (...) Harman does a splendid job
*Mail on Sunday*
An immensely readable biography
*Woman and Home*
A substantial biography (...) that lets the disparate pieces speak
for themselves
*Daily Telegraph*
Harman renders her daring novels fresh, interweaving what shocked
critics then with what surprises us still
*Sunday Telegraph*
Prepare to suffer similar time-loss at the hands of Harman,
Brontë's most recent biographer and a master storyteller in her own
right. Level-headed, highly readable and always intelligent,
Harman's account of Brontë's life and work is a delight from start
to finish
*Sunday Times*
A subtle, measured biography, full of insight into Bronte's fiery
intellect as well as the tragic intensity of her experience
*Helen Dunmore, Observer*
Harman brings a fresh eye to many of the same papers studied by
Gaskell to compile her Charlotte Brontë: 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*
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