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`The hour grows late ... the candles burn low'; FICTION: Charlotte Bronte hurries to London to clear up a misunderstanding with her publisher and becomes embroiled in murder, suicide, romance and international conspiracy.

Publication: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Publication Date: 09-MAR-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: `The hour grows late ... the candles burn low'; FICTION: Charlotte Bronte hurries to London to clear up a misunderstanding with her publisher and becomes embroiled in murder, suicide, romance and international conspiracy.(ENTERTAINMENT)

Article Excerpt
Byline: KATHERINE BAILEY

Special to the Star Tribune

Biographies of Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) chronicle her quiet life in Haworth, a remote Yorkshire village. They reveal that she wrote her masterpiece, "Jane Eyre," under the pen name Currer Bell; that her father, Patrick, was a parson; that her sisters, Emily and Anne, also published novels under pseudonyms (Ellis and Acton Bell respectively); that her brother, Branwell, was addicted to opium, and that Charlotte experienced an unrequited love affair with a married man and finally married her father's curate, only to die of pneumonia a year later at age 39.

It was one such biography that inspired Laura Joh Rowland to fictionalize the...

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