Book description
The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire
moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children
dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his
two most beloved family members. A son destroyed by alcohol and
opiates. And three strong, intelligent young women, reduced to poverty
and spinsterhood, with nothing to save them from their fate. Nothing,
that is, except their remarkable literary talent. So unfolds the story
of the Bronte sisters. At its center are Charlotte and the writing of
Jane Eyre. Delicately unraveling the connections between one of
fiction's most indelible heroines and the remarkable woman who created
her, Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre will appeal to fans of
historical fiction and, of course, the millions of readers who adore
Jane Eyre.
