“Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart” by Claire Harman, Knopf, $30, 480 pages, hardcover April marks the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, and Claire Harman’s new biography offers a compelling ...

The Bronte sisters never seem to go out of style, thanks to their timeless novels, their untimely deaths and the tragedies that befell them in life and love. Modern readers remain mesmerized by ...

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Thursday was the 200th birthday of Charlotte Bronte, influential English novelist and author of "Jane Eyre." This bicentenary is being widely observed in exhibitions, lectures, programs and ...

April is National Poetry Month. It is also the birth month of beloved author Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855). Charlotte Bronte and her sisters, Anne and Emily, novelists and poets all, were dramatic, ...

How did this happen? How is it that three Victorian women who grew up in a fairly remote part of England, who had little or no formal education, none of whom lived past the age of 40, two of whom ...