Charlotte Bront Revisited: A view from the 21st century

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Charlotte Bronte Revisitedlooks again at Charlotte Bront's life and work through 21st-century eyes. Discover her private world of convention, rebellion, and imagination, and how they shaped her life, writing, and obsessionsincluding the paranormal, nature, feminism and politics.

Everybody knows Charlotte Bront. World-famous for her novel Jane Eyre, she's a giant of literature and has been written about in reverential tones in scores of textbooks over the years. But what do we really know about Charlotte

This is a celebration of all things CharlotteBront, and emphatically shows why her writing was so far ahead of its time, and is as relevant today as ever.

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`Interweaves biography and reference to scholarly material with [Franklins] own take on pertinent aspects of Charlottes oeuvre ... [Her] witty tone makes the calibration of these two things the pleasure of the literary enthusiastic and the scholarly both easy and enjoyable. Franklin deftly mixes contemporary humour with reflectivity ... superbly written, exuberant. Bront Studies Journal

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Sophie Franklin is forging an academic career studying the Bront sisters and their literary works, after receiving a First from St Andrews University and a Distinction in her MLitt from the University of Durham where she also co-organised a Bront conference in 2017. She has worked in bookselling and in an editorial capacity for a small publishing house.