Press Reviews

• Jan Marsh

  New Statesman

  An exemplary biography: brisk but attentive to all nuance; lucid and open in its judgements; wearing its learning lightly but visibly

• Mark Bostridge

  TES

  Brilliant and powerful . . . [Gordon] brings us the closest we are ever likely to get to an understanding of the source of Charlotte Bronte's creative genius . . . Bronte biography has, at last, come of age

• Jackie Wullschlager

  Financial Times

  Sensitive, open-minded, vivid, full of psychological insight, [Gordon's] book is a brilliant reappraisal of Charlotte Bronte's life, work, and the flow between the two . . . It is also a deeply moving story

• Fiona MacCarthy

  Observer

  A magnificent biography focusing on the gaps and silences in Charlotte Brontë's emotionally turbulent life. This is Gordon's best book and the best thing about Charlotte Brontë yet

• Claire Tomalin

  Independent on Sunday

  A book full of brilliant suggestions which do engage our attention and interest from the first page to the last

• Lucasta Miller

  The Times

  Lyndall Gordon approaches her subject with the imagination of the true critic

• Roy Hattersley

  Mail on Sunday

  A classic biography . . . which combines scholarship with popular appeal

• Jan Marsh, New Statesman

  An exemplary biography: brisk but attentive to all nuance; lucid and open in its judgements; wearing its learning lightly but visibly

• Mark Bostridge, TES

  Brilliant and powerful . . . [Gordon] brings us the closest we are ever likely to get to an understanding of the source of Charlotte Bronte's creative genius . . . Bronte biography has, at last, come of age