Charlotte Bronte's fame and influence rest on a very slender canon of published works: only four novels and some contributions to a volume of poetry. Her reputation may be explained in part by the astounding success of her first novel, Jane Eyre...

Charlotte Brontë's fame and influence rest on a very slender canon of published works: only four novels and some contributions to a volume of poetry. Her reputation may be explained in part by the astounding success of her first novel, Jane Eyre...

Charlotte Brontë's short fiction comprises the profuse writings that she produced--in collaboration with her brother, Branwell, and their sisters, Emily and Anne--during their sheltered childhoods at Haworth Parsonage. Until the publication of...

Although Charlotte Brontë is one of the most famous Victorian women writers, only two of her poems are widely read today, and these are not her best or most interesting poems. Like her contemporary Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she experimented with...

The English novelist Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855) portrayed the struggle of the individual to maintain his integrity with a dramatic intensity entirely new to English fiction. Charlotte Brontë was born in Thornton in the West Riding of...