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No body of writing has engendered more other bodies of writing than the Bible, but the Brontë corpus comes alarmingly close. “Since 1857, when Elizabeth Gaskell published her famous Life of Charlotte Brontë, hardly a year has gone by without some form...

There’s really only one thing you have to know, to judge a biography of Charlotte Brontë—and that’s the fact that we already know basically all we can know about her. No significant information is likely to be added to our store of knowledge; no important...

I’ve never read a biography about any of the Brontës before so when the publisher offered me the chance to read Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman I said, sure! This year is the two hundredth anniversary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth and...

On the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë's birth, writers and artists reflect on her greatest creation. [The Guardian] Sarah Waters: I first read Jane Eyre as a teenager, but have returned to it many times since; it is one of those novels that, with each...

Here is the latest Book News from The New York Times. Ann Patchett’s Nashville Bookstore Hits the Road, With Dogs in Tow The arrival of bookmobiles in Nashville and other cities indicates that independent bookstores are making a comeback after years...