Alethea Hayter's book appraises Charlotte Yonge as a writer, not simply as a symptom of her times, surveying her non-fictional studies in history, onomastics and wild-life as well as her family chronicles, historical novels and children's books.
Presents a study that shows how, after extensive 'practice' in the Juvenilia, Bronte developed subtlety in the use of narrators, structure, language, imagery and allusion to create novels open to constant reinterpretation in print and on film.
At the high-octane Iowa Writers' Workshop, small-town Charlotte is thrilled and confounded by her relationship with charismatic and sophisticated Esme: One moment, Esme appears to be Charlotte's most intimate friend; the next, her rival. After a tumultuous weekend, Charlotte's insecurities and her resentment ...
