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001 2015028359
003 DLC
005 20150725083520.0
008 150724t20162015nyu 000 1beng
010 $a 2015028359
020 $a9780307962089 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR4168$b.H27 2015
082 00 $a823/.809$aB$223
084 $aBIO007000$aBIO022000$aLIT004290$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHarman, Claire.
245 10 $aCharlotte Bronte :$ba fiery heart /$cClaire Harman.
250 $aFirst United States edition.
263 $a1603
264 1 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2016.
264 4 $c©2015
300 $apages ; cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $a"This is a Borzoi book."
520 $a"A groundbreaking biography that places an obsessive, unrequited love at the heart of the writer's life story, transforming her from the tragic figure we have previously known into a smoldering Jane Eyre. Famed for her beloved novels, Charlotte Brontë has been known as well for her insular, tragic family life. The genius of this biography is that it delves behind this image to reveal a life in which loss and heartache existed alongside rebellion and fierce ambition. Harman seizes on a crucial moment in the 1840's when Charlotte worked at a girls' school in Brussels and fell hopelessly in love with the husband of the school's headmistress. Her torment spawned her first attempts at writing for publication, and he haunts the pages of every one of her novels--he is Rochester in Jane Eyre, Paul Emanuel in Villette. Another unrequited love--for her publisher--paved the way for Charlotte to enter a marriage that ultimately made her happier than she ever imagined. Drawing on correspondence unavailable to previous biographers, Claire Harman establishes Brontë the heroine of her own story, one as dramatic and triumphant as one of her own novels"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aBrontë, Charlotte,$d1816-1855.
650 0 $aWomen authors, English$y19th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aNovelists, English$y19th century$vBiography.
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors.$2bisacsh