In 1829-30, Charlotte Brontë was 13 and her brother Branwell Brontë 12. Creating fantasy worlds they called Angria and Glass Town, the siblings made teeny tiny books. Measuring less than 1 inch by 2 ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Novels of Charlotte Brontë" contains all 5 novels in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Jane ...

The Bronte sisters never seem to go out of style, thanks to their timeless novels, their untimely deaths and the tragedies that befell them in life and love. Modern readers remain mesmerized by ...

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Before they wrote world-famous ...

Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate. Although ...

The contours of the Brontë story have been burnished over time into legend: those bleak, wind-swept moors; that isolated West Yorkshire parsonage; the children whose sole playmates were one another; ...

When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855 a few weeks short of her 39th birthday, a prevailing perception was that the author of “Jane Eyre,” “Villette” and “Shirley” had lived a life of fruitless love and ...

There’s a moment halfway through Claire Harman’s superb new biography of Charlotte Brontë when it hits you just how quickly the whole Brontë phenomenon erupted and was over. In 1844, sisters Charlotte ...

“Jane Eyre” contains one of the most revolutionary statements in world literature, explaining why Charlotte Brontë remains an indispensable writer: “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be ...

You probably think of "Jane Eyre" as the kind of novel you'd feel safe in recommending to a 12-year-old girl (if you know a 12-year-old girl who'd read a novel about a Victorian governess instead of ...

Jane Eyre (1847) is a novel published under the pen name "Currer Bell." Jane Eyre was Charlotte Brontës second novel, but the first to be published. It follows the emotions and experiences of its ...