“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 ...

Thursday was the 200th birthday of Charlotte Bronte, influential English novelist and author of "Jane Eyre." This bicentenary is being widely observed in exhibitions, lectures, programs and ...

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’s attraction to the strange and horrific was an early vehicle for her love of storytelling. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons, V.M. Braganza and the Internet ...

The Bronte sisters never seem to go out of style, thanks to their timeless novels, their untimely deaths and the tragedies that befell them in life and love. Modern readers remain mesmerized by ...

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 ...

When Elizabeth Gaskell published a biography of her late friend Charlotte Brontë in 1857, it caused a furor. More than 100 letters, ranging from the litigious to the mildly vexatious, arrived at the ...

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 ...

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" ...

A few years ago Miss Sinclair was congratulating us on this enduring silence which surrounds Emily Brontë. “By the mercy of heaven the swarm of gossips and theorists have passed her by. She has no ...