Charlotte Brontë was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature.
Orphaned, impoverished, and plain, Jane Eyre navigates the rigid Victorian world, finding defiant love and stark independence amidst the gothic secrets of Thornfield Hall and the passionate, Byronic Mr. Rochester.
In 1812 Yorkshire, during Luddite revolts and industrial change, two women, one bound by tradition and the other by wealth, navigate societal limits and find their own paths to independence, questioning what it means to be a woman in a changing world.
Penniless and proud, William Crimsworth navigates the currents of ambition and unrequited love in a Belgian boarding school, finding his voice and an unexpected intellectual kinship.
