Charlotte and Emily: A Novel of the Brontes, (Paperback)

from Cariola

I'm a big fan of Jude Morgan's historical novels, and I also love the Brontes, so I expected to be borne away by A Taste of Sorrow. Sadly, not so. I found the book extremely slow going. At first I thought this was simply because I was occupied with end-of-semester tasks that inevitably kept my re...

from rainpebble

Charlotte and Emily: A Novel of the Brontes; (2 1/2*) In 1821 Haworth, Yorkshire Maria Bronte, mother of five and wife to a Vicar, dies. Her milk-toast husband Patrick sends his oldest four daughters to a cheap, abominable boarding school but Maria and Elizabeth come home to die from consumption....

from Shuffy2

Many people know Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights but what do they know about the women who wrote the famous novels? The novel tells the tale of not only Charlotte and Emily but their sister Anne and brother Branwell and the struggles they faced both individually and as a family unit. The book sho...

from DeltaQueen50

Charlotte and Emily by Jude Morgan tells the story of the Bronte family and was one of the saddest books I have read this year. The six Bronte children lost their mother at a young age, were raised by a distant father with the help of an Aunt who cared more about duty and correctness than love an...

from Renz0808

This novel breathes life the lives of the three Bronte sisters whose masterpieces have stood the test of time. Emily, observant, who turned away from the world to live out her imagination; Anne, gentle who suffered the harshest perception life threw upon her and Charlotte, steadfast, brilliant an...