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In this amazing novel, a brilliant mélange of truth and fiction, Juliet Gael skillfully and stylishly captures the passions, hopes, dreams, and sorrows of books’s most famous sisters—and imagines how love dramatically & most unexpectedly found Charlotte Brontë.
During the two years that she examined in Brussels, Charlotte experienced a tastes of life’s splendors—travel, books, and art. Now, back home in the Yorkshire moors, duty-bound to a blind dad and an alcoholic sibling, an ambitious Charlotte won't sink into hopelessness. With her sisters, Emily and Anne, Charlotte conceives a plan to earn money and pursue a fantasy: The Brontës will publish. In child years the Brontë children created fantastical imaginary worlds; now the sisters craft books quite unlike anything written before. Changing her loneliness and personal sorrow into a triumph of literary art, Charlotte pens her 1847 masterpiece, Jane Eyre.
Charlotte’s book becomes an overwhelming literary success, catapulting the shy and awkward young woman into the limelight of London’s popular literary field—and into the biceps and triceps of her new publisher, George Smith, an irresistibly good-looking young man whose affinity for his fiercely wise and spirited new creator seems to go beyond professional duty. And life begins to carry new guarantee, unspeakable tragedy descends on the Brontë household, tossing London and George into the background and going out of Charlotte to fear that really the only romance she'll ever find is at the end of her pen.
But another man waits in the Brontës’ Haworth parsonage—the peaceful but identified curate Arthur Nicholls. After secretly pining for Charlotte since he first came up to work for her father, Arthur all of the sudden reveals his heart to her.
Romancing Pass up Brontë is a fascinating portrayal of a fantastic woman whose life and work articulated our deepest people longing: to love and become loved in return.
From the Hardcover edition.
