Before the Bookers | 1847
Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Clive Anderson and guests John Sutherland, Brenda Maddox, James Naughtie and Claire Tomalin discuss which book (Vanity Fair, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre or Dombey and Son) might have won the Booker Prize had it existed in 1847.
TweetBeing the Brontes
Martha Kearney, novelist Helen Oyeyemi and journalist Lucy Mangan travel to Haworth Parsonage, the home of Charlotte and her sisters Emily and Anne.
To Walk Invisible
Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte face a bleak future, with their father half-blind and troubled brother Branwell in decline. As their situation worsens, Charlotte sees that writing could offer a way out. This is the story of the sisters' great novels and their extraordinary battle for recognition.