The Letters of Charlotte Bronte

Written by Charlotte Bronte

Narrated by Imogen Stubbs

THE LETTERS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE. The brief and tragic life of Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855) is captured here in the beautiful letters she wrote to her best friend Ellen Hussey, as she describes the long winter evenings spent in the bleak Haworth parsonage in the company of her sisters Emily and Anne. Having worked unhappily as a Governess and lived abroad in Brussels she returns to the moors where she writes her most successful novel ‘Jane Eyre’. She then enters the most tragic period of her life as her brother Branwell, a vicious drunk, dies in September 1848 followed within twelve months by both of her sisters Emily and Anne. Charlotte then marries her father’s curate only to die herself a few months later. The letters Of Charlotte Bronte provide an emotional insight into the wild, sad life and the beautiful character that grew out of it. In this production Imogen Stubbs plays Charlotte.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group Audio
• Release date: Jan 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781780001913

Charlotte Bronte

Charlotte Brontë, born in 1816, was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters, and one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists. She is the author of Villette, The Professor, several collections of poetry, and Jane Eyre, one of English literature's most beloved classics. She died in 1855.