Book description
In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon
dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian
lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a
strong and fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into
art. 'Sensitive, open-minded, vivid, full of psychological insight,
[Gordon's] book is a brilliant reappraisal of Charlotte Bronte's life,
work, and the flow between the two . . . It is also a deeply moving
story' Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times Lyndall Gordon is the
prizewinning author of biographies including CHARLOTTE BRONTE, VIRGINIA
WOOLF, SHARED LIVES and MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Born and raised in South
Africa, Lyndall is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
