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 ...

Charlotte Brontë's 200th birthday is coming up on April 21st. And what better way to celebrate than to reveal a bunch of personal facts that she probably wouldn't have wanted us to know? If you're a ...

Behind Jane Eyre's unforgettable romance lies a fierce challenge to Victorian society. On its 179th anniversary, Charlotte ...

The news is that there is a television adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre in the works to be released in time for the 180th year of the novel’s publication. This is the latest in the list of ...

Charlotte Bronte, by George Richmond, chalk, 1850. US Public Domain (US_PD). https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CBRichmond.jpg The front door and windows of the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A bookseller in California has uncovered unpublished works by one of ...

From the moment the librarian wheeled the document to my table at Harvard University’s Houghton Library, I had a foreboding sense that I was going to need a magnifying glass. Bound in faded purple ...

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 ...

In 1886 the Encyclopaedia Britannica, ninth edition, said of Charlotte Brontë: “A comparison has sometimes been made between Miss Brontë and Miss Austen. The points of contrast are certainly more ...

What is it that makes generation after generation respond to Charlotte Brontë’s books, and in particular Jane Eyre? Brontë’s novels are bildungsromane, but they differ markedly from, say, the coming ...

A miniature book by the 13-year-old Charlotte Brontë, containing perhaps her last unseen poems, has been purchased by a charity and will be donated to the Brontë Parsonage Museum. By Jennifer ...