{"product_id":"9780063517042","title":"Charlotte","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn enchanting, historically grounded, literary debut inspired by a critical year in the life of Charlotte Brontë and the writing of \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1846 is no time for a woman to pursue her dream of being a novelist. A responsible young woman ought to pack away her ambition and submit to life as a schoolteacher or wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Charlotte Brontë is no ordinary woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharlotte is secretive, difficult, and restless. She is blind to the tender interest of a local curate, yet she writes obsessively to a married man. She is brilliant, impassioned, and sensitive: as a schoolgirl, Charlotte is just as likely to entertain her classmates with recitations of Byron as she is to weep from shyness. More than anything, Charlotte is determined to be seen and read, to be reckoned with for her true self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith every London publisher rejecting her first novel, her family's savings dwindling, and her brother drinking away what little remains, it falls to Charlotte as the eldest daughter to save her family’s fortunes. The only sensible thing to do is return to teaching.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInstead, she picks up her pen one last time. What she writes is not the respectable, measured book a London publisher might want, but a daring novel about an orphan governess, a madwoman, and a transgressive romance that will shock the literary world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat novel is \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on Charlotte’s letters and the rich, strange world of a village parsonage—three brilliant sisters, a dissolute brother, and an ailing father—Elizabeth Ferris’s \u003ci\u003eCharlotte \u003c\/i\u003eimagines the emotional depths beneath the placid exterior of a country spinster and examines the cost of insisting, against all obstacles, that her inner life is worth something.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Elizabeth Ferris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68166103040149,"sku":"9780063517042","price":57.02,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9780063517042.png?v=1793950628","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9780063517042","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}