num_pages: 617
description: 'a book to end all books about the Brontës' L.P. Hartley, Sunday Telegraph'a fine book about a fascinating woman' New YorkerCharlotte Brontë is best known as the author of Jane Eyre, and there are certain resemblances between her romantic fictional heroine and herself. Both experienced miserable schooldays, long periods of loneliness and overwhelming desire to be loved. In this highly readable, award-winning biography Winifred Gérin gives the full details of the life of this exceptional Victoria novelist, incidentally casting much light on Charlotte’s sisters Emily and Anne, her brother Branwell, and her friend Elizabeth Gaskell.Winifred Gérin’s biographies of Emily Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell are also available in Oxford Paperbacks.'[Winifred Gérin] is a scholarly and exact biographer. Yet her book holds the reader as closely as a novel.' The Times
language: English
title: Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius
titlecomplete: Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius (Oxford Lives)
characters: Charlotte Brontë
genres: Nonfiction, History, British Literature, Biography
ratings_count: 34
awards: awardedAt: -94665600000
name: W.H. Heinemann Award
publisher: Oxford University Press