“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 ...

Charlotte Brontë’s attraction to the strange and horrific was an early vehicle for her love of storytelling. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons, V.M. Braganza and the Internet ...

The contours of the Brontë story have been burnished over time into legend: those bleak, wind-swept moors; that isolated West Yorkshire parsonage; the children whose sole playmates were one another; ...

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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 ...

Literary biographies are, at heart, mystery stories: The best try to show us, through meticulous tiptoeing through clues, the secret of where a writer’s genius came from. Claire Harman’s “Charlotte ...

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April marks the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, and Claire Harman’s new biography offers a compelling look at the famed novelist. One of six children of a Methodist minister and his wife, ...