"Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life."
After receiving this crushing response from the poet laureate, Charlotte Brontë went on to write Jane Eyre, spearhead her sisters' writing careers, and break through a Victorian "glass ceiling." Literary history is forever grateful.
So why did her family resent her and fall apart?
After receiving this crushing response from the poet laureate, Charlotte Brontë went on to write Jane Eyre, spearhead her sisters' writing careers, and break through a Victorian "glass ceiling." Literary history is forever grateful.
So why did her family resent her and fall apart?
THE BRONTËS
A musical
Music by Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed
Lyrics by Sarah Ziegler
Book by Katie Palmer, Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed, and Sarah Ziegler
Music by Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed
Lyrics by Sarah Ziegler
Book by Katie Palmer, Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed, and Sarah Ziegler