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Ballantine Books
May 2010
On Sale: April 27, 2010
Featuring: Charlotte Bronte; Arthur Bell Nichols
432 pages
ISBN: 0345520041
EAN: 9780345520043
Hardcover
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In this astonishing novel, a brilliant mélange of fact and
fiction, Juliet Gael skillfully and stylishly captures the
passions, hopes, dreams, and sorrows of literature’s most
famous sisters—and imagines how love dramatically and most
unexpectedly found Charlotte Brontë.
During the two
years that she studied in Brussels, Charlotte had a taste of
life’s splendors—travel, literature, and art. Now, back home
in the Yorkshire moors, duty-bound to a blind father and an
alcoholic brother, an ambitious Charlotte refuses to sink
into hopelessness. With her sisters, Emily and Anne,
Charlotte conceives a plan to earn money and pursue a dream:
The Brontës will publish. In childhood the Brontë children
created fantastical imaginary worlds; now the sisters craft
novels quite unlike anything written before. Transforming
her loneliness and personal sorrow into a triumph of
literary art, Charlotte pens her 1847 masterpiece, Jane
Eyre.
Charlotte’s novel becomes an overwhelming
literary success, catapulting the shy and awkward young
woman into the spotlight of London’s fashionable literary
scene—and into the arms of her new publisher, George Smith,
an irresistibly handsome young man whose interest in his
fiercely intelligent and spirited new author seems to go
beyond professional duty. But just as life begins to hold
new promise, unspeakable tragedy descends on the Brontë
household, throwing London and George into the background
and leaving Charlotte to fear that the only romance she will
ever find is at the tip of her pen.
But another
man waits in the Brontës’ Haworth parsonage—the quiet but
determined curate Arthur Nicholls. After secretly pining for
Charlotte since he first came to work for her father, Arthur
suddenly reveals his heart to her.
Romancing Miss
Brontë is a fascinating portrayal of an extraordinary
woman whose life and work articulated our deepest human
longing: to love and be loved in return.
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