A unique new performance inspired by Charlotte Brontë will debut this weekend as part of the Thornton Art Trail.

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 ...

“Emily — that free, wild, untameable spirit, never happy nor well but on the sweeping moors that gathered round her home.” So ...

“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 ...

Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate.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

Literary biographies are, at heart, mystery stories: The best try to show us, through meticulous tiptoeing through clues, the secret of where a writer’s genius came from. Claire Harman’s “Charlotte ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charlotte Brontë is best known for her book Jane Eyre, but before she was a well-known English novelist and poet she was a 13-year ...

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 ...

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 ...