“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 ...

The Bront sisters read everything they could get their hands on, which, in rural Yorkshire in the 1840s, was not nearly as much as they liked. Still, with the advent of the circulating library and a ...

Tracy Chevalier on her role as curator in the celebrations marking the author’s bicentenary in Haworth ...

In the cold winter of 1843, Charlotte Brontë found herself far from the windswept moors of Haworth, standing in a dim classroom in Brussels and confronting a truth she could no longer ignore — that ...

Two rare envelopes addressed by 19th-century British novelist and poet Charlotte Bronte are up for auction in the U.K. this weekend. Considered a key figure in Victorian English literature, Bronte is ...

A tiny book of poetry written by English novelist Charlotte Brontë when she was only 13 years old has been donated to a museum in the childhood home she shared with her two sisters—who were also ...

Charlotte Brontë’s attraction to the strange and horrific was an early vehicle for her love of storytelling. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos via Wikimedia Commons, V.M. Braganza and the Internet ...

April 21 marks the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth and is the occasion for the publication of another biography of a writer who has captured readers’ imagination quite as much as her ...