Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

April 21 marks the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth and is the occasion for the publication of another biography of a writer who has captured readers’ imagination quite as much as her ...

Thursday was the 200th birthday of Charlotte Bronte, influential English novelist and author of "Jane Eyre." This bicentenary is being widely observed in exhibitions, lectures, programs and ...

Two hundred years after her birth, Charlotte Bronte's rage over social expectations for women and thwarted ambitions are as relevant as ever. A new biography by Claire Harman makes the "Jane Eyre" ...

“Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart” by Claire Harman, Knopf, $30, 480 pages, hardcover April marks the bicentennial of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, and Claire Harman’s new biography offers a compelling ...

The contours of the Brontë story have been burnished over time into legend: those bleak, wind-swept moors; that isolated West Yorkshire parsonage; the children whose sole playmates were one another; ...

A bookseller in California has uncovered unpublished works by one of the most significant and popular Victorian writers, Charlotte Brontë, wedged between the pages of a biography formerly owned by the ...

One tipsy night long ago, when I was a graduate student in literature at the University of South Florida, several female friends and I came up with a deep theory of literature. It went like this: If ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...