Synopsis
Schools program looking at how Charlotte Bronte anticipated the feminist writing of today by presenting a heroine prepared to stand against conventions of her time. Includes dramatisation of story, with Joanna David as Charlotte and Jane.
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Being 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.