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Charlotte Bronte famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and with siblings whose astonishing creativity was a closely held secret. The genius of Claire Harman's biography is that it transcends these melancholy facts to reveal a woman for whom duty and piety gave way to quiet rebellion and fierce ambition. Drawing on letters unavailable to previous biographers, Harman depicts Charlotte's inner life with absorbing intensity. Bronte's blazingly intelligent female characters brimming with hidden passions transformed English literature, even as a heartrending series of personal losses followed the author's literary success. Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart is a groundbreaking view of the beloved writer as a young woman ahead of her time.



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Claire Harman

Claire Harman is the award-winning author of three major literary biographies, Sylvia Townsend Warner (1989) , Fanny Burney (2000) , Robert Louis Stevenson (2005) and of Jane's Fame: How Jane Austen Comquered the World (2009) , a biographical study of Jane Austen's enduring appeal. She is the editor of Sylvia Townsend Warner's poems and diaries and of stories and essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, among other works. She writes regularly for the literary press on both sides of the Atlantic and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2006.website: www.claireharman.com



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