Because Elisabeth Kyle wrote her account of Charlotte Bronte's life for young readers, she perhaps felt it necessary to avoid a starkly realistic depiction of Charlotte's difficult childhood, the tragedies that she endured until her death in 1855, and the sexist literary climate of the nineteenth century. Although this romanticized view in some ways minimizes the impact of Charlotte's struggle to become a serious writer in her time, Kyle portrays Charlotte as an intelligent, determined nonconformist who achieves her ambitions. She presents Charlotte as a role model for young female writers, noting in her afterword that her purpose in writing the book was to stir interest in a "remarkable girl" who wrote "remarkable books."