Arts

With her siblings she created a stupendously detailed imaginative world, and then as the threat of becoming governesses loomed over the sisters they determined to become published novelists.Thus in the Haworth Parsonage in one year, the three Bronte girls created three landmark books of English fiction: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey.

Anne and Emily died tragically young, and Charlotte's own death from hyperemesis gravidarum (acute morning sickness) cut short her experience of literary success.

Acclaimed literary biographer, Claire Harman, has written a new biography of Charlotte Bronte that explores the writer's singular life and achievements.