The Invention of Charlotte Brontë by Graham Watson: Hardcover

The Brontë story you know is a myth. This is the truth.

Charlotte Brontë's life was as dramatic as Jane Eyre's. She buried a tragic past, reinvented herself as a celebrated author and enigmatic celebrity, and fell passionately in love. It cost her dearly, and she burned bridges along the way.

Then she died suddenly, leaving behind more questions than answers.

Her friend Elizabeth Gaskell set out to tell the truth and found illicit love, family discord, and bitter rivalries stranger than fiction. Her tell-all biography was so scandalous it was banned and rewritten twice in six months, but not before it launched the legend of the Brontës.

The Invention of Charlotte Brontë pulls back the curtain on a darker story.