Romancing Miss Brontë
A Novel
New York : Ballantine Books, [2010]
Format: Ebook
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Edition: First edition.
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During the two years that she studied in Brussels, Charlotte had a taste of life's splendors - travel, literature, and art. Now, back home in the Yorkshire moors, duty-bound to a blind father and an alcoholic brother, an ambitious Charlotte refuses to sink into hopelessness. With her sisters, Emily and Anne, Charlotte conceives a plan to earn money and pursue a dream: The Bron?ts will publish. In childhood the Bron?t children created fantastical imaginary worlds; now the sisters craft novels quite unlike anything written before. Transforming her loneliness and personal sorrow into a triumph of literary art, Charlotte pens her 1847 masterpiece, Jane Eyre. Charlotte's novel becomes an overwhelming literary success, catapulting the shy and awkward young woman into the spotlight of London's fashionable literary scene - and into the arms of her new publisher, George Smith, an irresistibly handsome young man whose interest in his fiercely intelligent and spirited new author seems to go beyond professional duty. But just as life begins to hold new promise, unspeakable tragedy descends on the Bron?t household, throwing London and George into the background and leaving Charlotte to fear that the only romance she will ever find is at the tip of her pen. But another man waits in the Bron?ts' Haworth parsonage - the quiet but determined curate Arthur Nicholls. After secretly pining for Charlotte since he first came to work for her father, Arthur suddenly reveals his heart to her.
Subjects:
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Fiction.
Brontë family -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Women authors -- Fiction.
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Fiction.
Brontë family -- Fiction.
Authors -- Fiction.
Women authors -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780345520326
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