Romancing Miss Bronte

from ALoyacano

There are certain authors that have become characters in the reader's psyche and Charlotte Bronte is one. Over many years she has taken on her own fictional qualities (similar to Jane Austen). The readers of her novels are just as interested in the author as they are the characters in the story. ...

from elbakerone

Though the title would suggest a fanciful romance, Romancing Miss Brontë by Juliet Gael is a mostly somber historical fiction about the life - and eventual love interest - of Charlotte Brontë. The book opens on the younger life of Charlotte, with sisters Emily and Anne and brother Branwell, and t...

from booklove2

I must mention now: I'm not the kind of person who would be seen reading a book with "romancing" in the title. But for "Miss Brontë", I shall read! Anything for the Brontës. Other writers during the Brontës time were mainly concerned about money and marriage, but the Brontës were more more more. ...

from LauraBrook

I'm not quite finished with this book yet, but it's so good that I had to write about it. Having read the two big Bronte novels (Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre) in both high school and college, and knowing a little about their personal lives, I thought I had the highlights of their lives fairly ...

from KatharineClifton

I probably shouldn't even be reviewing this book right now, since I'm still feeling choked with emotion, but the number one thing I require in a book is that it make me feel something. Indeed, Romancing Miss Bronte made me feel something. In all honesty, it is a bit of an odd book, with a bit of ...