![]() Maybe none of her novels reach the heights and depths of Emily's masterpiece, nor provide the page-turning thrills of Anne Brontë's two popular books, but with Charlotte I get the sense of reading a hard-working writer, perhaps not quite as naturally gifted as other authors but striving mightily-and succeeding-in making intensely private stories of independently minded women publicly appreciated. In fact, I enjoy Charlotte's entire oeuvre. It's also my favourite of the Brontë productions. If Emily's one novel is famed as a literary masterwork, Charlotte's most famous of several novels is equally beloved as a trailblazer within a popular genre. Like most of Charlotte's works, it presents an independent woman seeking a balance between love and achievement, which still strikes a chord today. Her own greatest novel, Jane Eyre, is celebrated in its own right as a seminal gothic romance that is still widely read and, in its numerous film adaptations, widely viewed. ![]() Yet many know her best as the sister of Emily Brontë, author of the revered Wuthering Heights, which she championed. ![]() ![]() THE AUTHOR | WORKS | VIEWS AND QUOTES Sister who blazed longest and hardestĬharlotte was the longest living of the three writing Brontë sisters, almost making it to age forty, and her output was by far the most extensive and most popular in its day. ![]()
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