Charlotte Brontë
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  • Published: 29 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241975824
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download

Charlotte Brontë

A Life

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29 Oct 2015
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29 Oct 2015
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27 Jun 2016
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The definitive biography of a beloved British novelist published on her 200th anniversary

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Charlotte Brontë: A Life written and read by Claire Harman.

Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Brontë's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired.

Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family. She pushed Emily to publish Wuthering Heights and took charge of their precarious finances when her feckless brother turned to opium. In Jane Eyre she introduced the world to a brand new kind of heroine, modelled on herself: quiet but fiercely intelligent, burning with passion and potential.

This is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best loved writers.
  • Published: 29 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9780241975824
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the author

Claire Harman

Claire Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Fanny Burney, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charlotte Bronte, as well as the bestselling Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World and the Victorian crime investigation Murder by the Book. She is also a prizewinning poet and short story writer. She lives in Oxford.

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Praise for Charlotte Brontë

An extraordinary book, crammed with scholarship and glittering with trivia . . . Harman's book offers so many delights . . . This is a fantastic compendium

Independent on Sunday on 'Jane's Fame'

A shrewd but unstuffy critic, Harman's prose rings with good sense, affection and humour... [She] manages to be not only scholarly, but indecently entertaining.

Daily Mail on 'Jane's Fame'

Rich and colourful...Harman's book is a delight from beginning to end... This superb biography not only handles the familiar material with flair but goes further than previous biographies

Sunday Times on 'Robert Louis Stevenson: A Biography'