By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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Claire Harman opens her biography, written in time for Charlotte Brontë ... was haunting her own life. Brontë is described scaring her fellow schoolgirls with ghost stories, but then later, rejected ...

Thus Gordon believes that Charlotte’s well-known submissive reply to the poet Southey, who told her that ‘literature could not be the business of a woman’s life’, was actually an exercise in ...

In Ali Smith's latest novel, "Gliff," a brother and sister befriend a horse in a dystopian future. NPR's Scott Simon explores the issue of authoritarianism with the novelist and playwright.

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The resilience of women and their power to effect change when they work together are two of the inspiring central themes of a ...

A barrage of recent autobiographical meditations on divorce hew to a plot as strict as the one they seek to upend ...

Take Shelley — what a mess he made of his life ... loving poetry and Fanny Brawne so intemperately that he pined and died of consumption at the age of twenty-six. Charlotte Brontë again ...

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