num_pages: 437
description: When Charlotte Brontë died in 1855, she left behind twenty pages of a novel that signaled her most compelling work since Jane Eyre. One hundred fifty years later, Clare Boylan has finished Brontë's novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With pitch-perfect tone that is utterly true to Brontë's voice, Boylan delivers a brilliant tale about a mysterious young girl, Matilda, who is delivered to a girls' school in provincial England. When everything about the girl's wealthy background turns out to be a fiction, it falls to a local gentleman, Mr. Ellin, and a childless widow, Isabel Chalfont, to begin a quest for her past and her identity that takes them from the drawing rooms of country society to London's seamiest alleys. With all the intelligence and pathos of the novel's originator, Boylan develops Brontë's sketch of a girl without a past into a stunning portrait of Victorian society with a shameful secret at its heart.
language: English
title: Emma Brown
titlecomplete: Emma Brown
characters: William Ellin, Emma Brown, Isabel Chalfont
genres: Classics, British Literature, Historical, Mystery, Gothic, Romance, Historical Fiction, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 1187
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Penguin Books