Now, it is 1845, and she is back home in the desolate Yorkshire moors, duty-bound to a blind father and an alcoholic brother, watching her dreams unravel. When Charlotte’s feelings, stoked by the professor’s seductive attentions, grow obsessive, she flees back to England with her crushed hopes and the guilty secret of an adulterous love.
In this compelling novel of historical fiction, Juliet Gael portrays the poignantly courageous lives of literature’s most famous sisters and reveals how Charlotte Brontë transformed her heart’s loss into one of the most enduring literary works of all time – Jane Eyre.įor Charlotte, two years of study in Brussels offered everything her heart desired: independence, a taste of the continent and its sophistication, but most of all a chance to blossom under the guiding hand of a brilliant but married professor.
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