Charlotte Brontë Audiobook By Claire Harman cover art

Charlotte Brontë

A Life

 Preview

Audible Standard 30-day free trial

Try Standard free
Select 1 audiobook a month from our entire collection of titles.
Yours as long as you’re a member.
Get unlimited access to bingeable podcasts.
Standard auto renews for $8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Charlotte Brontë

By: Claire Harman
Narrated by: Claire Harman
Try Standard free

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $14.43

Buy for $14.43

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Charlotte Brontë: A Life written and read by Claire Harman.

Raised motherless on remote Yorkshire moors, watching five beloved siblings sicken and die, haunted by unrequited love: Charlotte Brontë's life has all the drama and tragedy of the great Gothic novels it inspired.

Charlotte was a literary visionary, a feminist trailblazer and the driving force behind the whole Brontë family. She pushed Emily to publish Wuthering Heights and took charge of their precarious finances when her feckless brother turned to opium. In Jane Eyre she introduced the world to a brand new kind of heroine, modelled on herself: quiet but fiercely intelligent, burning with passion and potential.

This is the definitive biography of one of Britain's best loved writers.

 Art & Literature Authors Biographies & Memoirs Cultural & Regional Women

Critic reviews

An extraordinary book, crammed with scholarship and glittering with trivia . . . Harman's book offers so many delights . . . This is a fantastic compendium
A shrewd but unstuffy critic, Harman's prose rings with good sense, affection and humour... [She] manages to be not only scholarly, but indecently entertaining.
Rich and colourful...Harman's book is a delight from beginning to end... This superb biography not only handles the familiar material with flair but goes further than previous biographies
All stars
Most relevant
I could not put this book down. The story is wonderfully told based on discerning research. Charlotte Bronte comes alive.

Riveting

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
wow... having being forced as a pupil in SA at an all girls private boarding school, I lament at my VERY belated interest in such RICH and entertaining Authors!!! such an amazing account, so PERFECTLY scribed and BEAUTIFULLY narrated.. . Claire Harman...WELL DONE and THANK YOU!
Having just (sadly) completed your account of Charlotte Bronte et al, I shall begin it again to get noteworthy authors, friends and aqaintances of Charlotte Bronte committed to memory AND further research...

Claire Hatman, what a fantastic opportunity and learning hobby you have afforded me.

a BEAUTIFUL ENRICHING LISTEN...again, and as always, thanks to AUDIBLE / Amazon for making this possible!!

exceptional!!!!!! History Eloquence

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.