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Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte Brontë: A Life

Having previously written biographies on Jane Austen and Robert Louis Stevenson, Harman’s latest book tackles another literary giant, Charlotte Brontë. In this extract, she describes a time when Bronte, who was living in Brussels at the time, felt drawn to a Catholic church to confess her sins.

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