num_pages: 456
description: This critically acclaimed portrait of Charlotte Brontë looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, to reveal a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Drawing on Brontë's unpublished letters, journals, early stories, and the manuscript of Villette, her last, unfinished novel, Gordon takes readers into the unseen space in which Brontë was able to live and create.
language: English
title: Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
titlecomplete: Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
characters: Charlotte Brontë
genres: Biography, Literary Fiction, Literature, Classics, Research, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, 19th Century, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 824
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Cheltenham Prize for Literature
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company