В замечательной подборке мартовских книг на сайте BBC Culture, одна книга меня особенно порадовала. Это биография Шарлотты Бронте от Клэр Хармен.

The biographer of Sylvia Townsend Warner, Fanny Burney and Robert Louis Stevenson offers a thorough re-examination of Charlotte Brontë’s life and work, timed to the bicentenary of her birth. Drawing upon letters not available to other biographers, Harman deftly links intimate personal events with Brontë’s literary output. She captures vividly the sickbed atmosphere of Charlotte’s early years, one reason “her heroines are all motherless, adrift, and starving for parental love.” She describes how her father’s reaction to becoming a widower led to the “anger, bewilderment, and pain” Charlotte expresses in Jane Eyre, the first novel to feature a child as a first-person narrator. And the wellspring of Brontë’s narrative intimacy? It’s an overpowering confessional reaction to her thwarted love for a married man, says Harman. This new book is a happy reminder of the life story that shaped a beloved author. (Credit: Knopf)