Inside Charlotte Brontë's Controversial First Biography

Inside Charlotte Brontë's Controversial First Biography

The novelist, who died at 38, has been called “the first historian of the private consciousness.” How a controversial biography of the Jane Eyre author overcame accusations of slander from the novelist’s hellish former headmaster, her critics, and even her father to establish her enduring myth By Graham Watson Shortly before she became one of the 19th century’s most scrutinized women, Charlotte Brontë told a friend that if strangers happened to …