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About the Book

Becoming Jane Eyre

In BECOMING JANE EYRE, Sheila Kohler uses extensive research and her own imagination to bring the tragedy-filled circumstances of Charlotte Brontë and her family vividly to life. By 1846, a mother and two children were dead; a father was sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two most beloved family members; a son was destroyed by alcohol, opiates and unrequited love; and three strong, intelligent, gifted sisters were reduced to poverty and spinsterhood, with nothing to save them from their fate. Nothing, that is, except their remarkable literary talent. BECOMING JANE EYRE is the story of Anne, Emily and Charlotte as they struggle with love, family, finances and their writing.

Becoming Jane Eyre
by Sheila Kohler

  • Publication Date: December 29, 2009
  • Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • ISBN-10: 0143115979
  • ISBN-13: 9780143115977