Shirley by Charlotte Brontë was completed on 30th August 1849. It may be the most unheralded of all Charlotte’s novels, unfairly I would say, but it’s certainly in my opinion the most personal of novels. In Shirley, Charlotte included, masked…
Month: August 2025
The Rapid Completion Of Jane Eyre
Some works of literature have worked their way into the national consciousness and beyond. It’s difficult to imagine a world without Jane Eyre; it’s loved by readers across the globe today just as much as it was loved by Queen…
Charlotte Bronte’s Gift Of Books
In the summer of 1848 Charlotte Brontë and Anne Brontë made a fateful journey to London, determined to prove their innocence after a ruse by rogue publisher Thomas Cautley Newby led to Charlotte’s publisher George Smith being informed that Currer,…
Haworth By Moonlight
Haworth has become famous the world over for three sisters who lived, all too briefly, in its parsonage at the summit of its steep hill: the Brontë sisters. At the time the Brontës lived there it was one of England’s…
Charlotte Bronte And Napoleon
Brontë fans and regular readers of this blog will be in no doubt as to Charlotte Brontë’s esteem for Constantin Heger – first her teacher and then her colleague in Brussels he cast a huge shadow on Charlotte’s life and…