Claire Harman

Raised motherless on the remote Yorkshire moors, Charlotte Brontë's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired. Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family. She pushed Emily to publish Wuthering Heights and in Jane Eyre she introduced the world to a brand new kind of heroine, modelled on herself: This is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best loved writers.