Charlotte Brontë was a 20-year-old schoolteacher — impatient, dreamy, long-suffering, unpublished — when, in 1836, she sent a sample of her writing to Robert Southey, England’s poet laureate.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

“Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart” by Claire Harman, Knopf, $30, 480 pages, hardcover April marks the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, and Claire Harman’s new biography offers a compelling ...

When Elizabeth Gaskell published a biography of her late friend Charlotte Brontë in 1857, it caused a furor. More than 100 letters, ranging from the litigious to the mildly vexatious, arrived at the ...

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 ...

New studies of Charlotte Brontë’s clothes reveal a woman less provincial and more fashion-conscious than suspected. As the ...

Friday morning I was sitting before the computer at home, staring at the blank screen, trying to think of something to write for Sunday's paper, when Charlotte Bronte walked in. She carried a ...

Illustrator Houghton’s scrupulous debut investigates the life of Charlotte Brontë through the lens of her wardrobe. Drawing from the collection of nearly 150 garments and accessories housed at the ...