Charlotte Brontë

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 *

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.

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