26 May 鈥� 5 Jun 2016, Hay-on-Wye
Claire Harman
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Claire Harman
Thu 2 Jun 2016 Hay Festival
Charlotte Bront毛 200

Charlotte Bront毛 was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Bront毛 family. She pushed Emily to publish Wuthering Heights and took charge of their precarious finances when her feckless brother turned to opium. In Jane Eyre she introduced the world to a brand new kind of heroine, modelled on herself: quiet but fiercely intelligent, burning with passion and potential. Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson, and the author of the best-selling Jane鈥檚 Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World.

Charlotte Bront毛 was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Bront毛 family. She pushed Emily to publish Wuthering Heights and took charge of their precarious finances when her feckless brother turned to opium. In Jane Eyre she introduced the world to a brand new kind of heroine, modelled on herself: quiet but fiercely intelligent, burning with passion and potential. Harman is the award-winning biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson, and the author of the best-selling Jane鈥檚 Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World.