Helen Huntingdon flees a disastrous marriage and retreats to the desolate, half-ruined moorland mansion, Wildfell Hall. With her small son, Arthur, she adopts an assumed name and makes her living...

The work tells the story of Jane's early life, her experience at Lowood School and as a governess. Her refusal to accept Rochester's love on any but her own strictly moral terms is a passionate...

Even after the resounding triumph of ‘Jane Eyre’, Charlotte Brontë could persuade no one to publish ‘The Professor’, her first novel. This story of William Crimsworth, who goes to...

Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of...

'Wuthering Heights', first published in 1847, is set amongst the wind-blasted moors known to Emily Brontë from her life at Haworth in Yorkshire, where her father was a clergyman. The dramatic...

The dramatic and sombre story of Wuthering Heights is dominated by Heathcliffe, a passionate and embittered soul, picked up as a gypsy waif by Mr Earnshaw and then reared in the bosom of his own...

From an obscure country parsonage came the most extraordinary family of the nineteenth century. The Brontë sisters created a world in which we still live- the intense, passionate world of ‘Jane...

Sir Clement Carnell was the most domineering and strait-laced of fathers, and his death has left his grown children, Louisa and Valentine, with a sense of release. While Valentine throws open the...

As a young woman, clever, self-reliant Lydia Templeton scandalised society by rejecting Lewis Durrant, the county’s most eligible bachelor. Ten years later, Lydia has no regrets and, having...

1817. Having reached the age of 30, Lydia Templeton is of the opinion that affairs of the heart need no longer trouble her. Her love life ended ten years ago when she turned down the most eligible...

The greatest writer of them all, brought to glorious life. How well do you know the man you love? How much do you think you know about Shakespeare? What if they were one and the same? He is an...