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Derby Book Festival returns for its second year (Arts Council England)

Edit Public Technologies 31 May 2016
(Source. Arts Council England). Supported by our Grants for the Arts funding, the festival is celebrating local writing talent and bringing internationally acclaimed authors to the city. The festival takes place from Tuesday 3 until Wednesday 11 June 2016 ... Bestselling author, Tracy Chevalier, and literary biographer, Claire Harman, will discuss Brontë's remarkable life and literary genius, which continues to inspire readers and writers....

The Brontës’ Secret

Edit The Atlantic 17 May 2016
In the U.S., there is a new Charlotte Brontë biography by Claire Harman; a Brontë-themed literary detective novel; a novelistic riff on Jane Eyre whose heroine is a serial killer; a collection of short stories inspired by that novel’s famous last line, “Reader, I married him”; and a fan-fiction-style “autobiography” of Nelly Dean, the servant-narrator of Wuthering Heights....

'Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart'

Edit The Washington Times 06 May 2016
CHARLOTTE BRONTE. A FIERY HEART. By Claire Harman. Knopf, $30, 480 pages. In the bleak and cold passages of an English parsonage the sisters wrote, marching around a dining room table until they were exhausted. They could not use their own names and their work was rejected, yet ultimately they ... ....

Turning Pages: In praise of Charlotte Bronte and the greatness of her work

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 28 Apr 2016
They gave Charlotte Bronte a lovely 200th birthday party last week in the Yorkshire village of Haworth, her old stamping ground. There were church services and floral tributes delivered on a bicycle by the Otley Ladies Cycling Club ... The most recent biography, Claire Harman's Charlotte Bronte, has been hailed as a solid and balanced reworking of what we know about her, without any sensational silliness ... ....

Charlotte Bronte's 200th birthday marked in Britain

Edit DNA India 21 Apr 2016
-->. Charlotte's best published work 'Jane Eyre' has never been out of print in Britain ... Her biographer Claire Harman told the BBC this month that she was someone "who both longed to be 'forever known', but clung to anonymity in order to achieve it, a woman much more concerned about truthfulness than personal fame and someone who felt compelled to put into words her own terrible sufferings... ....

Happy birthday, Charlotte Brontë (UNSW - The University of New South Wales)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Apr 2016
(Source. UNSW - The University of New South Wales). Bust out the bonnets, it's time to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Brontë's birth ... Picture ... In August, she will speak at the Brontë Society's conference in Manchester, joining as a keynote speaker with Germaine Greer, Professor Sally Shuttleworth from Oxford University and Brontë biographer Claire Harman as they address the position of women in the mid-19 century. What ... When....

A troubled path of genius

Edit The Wichita Eagle 02 Apr 2016
“Charlotte Bronte. A Fiery Heart” by Claire Harman (Alfred A. Knopf, 468 pages, illustrated, $30) She didn’t see London until late in her relatively short life. Overwhelmed by the sights ... ....

on Charlotte Brontë in her bicentenary year

Edit New Statesman 28 Mar 2016
Claire Harman’s graceful, intelligent and meticulously researched biography returns us to the loss that looms so large in the Brontë story ... Harman, at the outset, fixes on another kind of tragedy in the summer of 1843 when Charlotte was alone in Brussels ... Claire Harman’s dominant story is about an obsession ... Tracy Chevalier (9 April) and Claire Harman (10 April) will be appearing at the Cambridge Literary Festival....

Book review: "Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart," by Claire Harman

Edit Denver Post 27 Mar 2016
In 1847, as Charlotte Bronte's first novel was bounced yet again to Haworth parsonage, her sisters Emily and Anne made a deal with a London publisher to bring out their novels, "Wuthering Heights" and "Agnes Grey." ... She has found an affectionate champion in British biographer Claire Harman, whose lively and exhaustively researched "Charlotte Bronte ... ....

Why those subversive Brontë sisters still hypnotise us

Edit The Observer 27 Mar 2016
They are beloved by everyone from misunderstood teens and fools for love to the serious-minded middle-aged and those of a critical bent ... Related. Happy 200th birthday Charlotte Brontë. illustrating Jane Eyre – in pictures ... Claire Harman’s well-reviewed biography of Charlotte is published in paperback next month, while three new novels will also consider the Brontë legacy ... ....

'Charlotte Brontë' is an irresistible biography of 'Jane Eyre' and its author

Edit The Christian Science Monitor 22 Mar 2016
Literary biographer Claire Harman’s ......

Legendary author’s life was more tragic than her fiction

Edit New York Post 20 Mar 2016
A Fiery Heart” by award-winning biographer Claire Harman, who bases her book on letters previously unavailable to Brontë biographers ... The figure of Rochester, Jane Eyre’s great love, Harman writes, was modeled on Charlotte’s own real-life obsession with a married man, a theme carried over in her 1853 novel, “Villette,” about a woman’s unrequited infatuation with her Belgian teacher....

New bio refreshes Bronte energy for modern readers

Edit The Malta Independent 19 Mar 2016
Two hundred years after her birth, Charlotte Bronte's rage over social expectations for women and thwarted ambitions are as relevant as ever, and a new biography by Claire Harman makes the "Jane Eyre" author fresh and relatable to readers who might only think of the Brontes as figures long buried in tragic myth ... Re-examining the symptoms of Bronte's death, Harman also casts new light on the end of her short life....
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