“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 ...

Thursday was the 200th birthday of Charlotte Bronte, influential English novelist and author of "Jane Eyre." This bicentenary is being widely observed in exhibitions, lectures, programs and ...

Yet another biography of the Brontes requires an apology, or at least an explanation. Their lives have been written so many times that there ought to be nothing left to say. Mrs. Gaskell's Life of ...

"Charlotte Bronte: A Fiery Heart" (Alfred A. Knopf) by Claire Harman Two hundred years after her birth, Charlotte Bronte's rage over social expectations for women and thwarted ambitions are as ...