 What was so revolutionary about the way she wrote?
Charlotte Brontë died 150 years ago and yet she still fascinates literary critics and readers around the world.
The Brontë sisters' lives have become inextricably linked with their heroines. Over the years, this has caused considerable controversy.
Was Charlotte the passionate Jane Eyre that writers such as Thackery liked to imagine, or the saintly figure of Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of her?
Jenni talks to novelist Joanna Trollope and biographer Lucasta Miller about Charlotte's legacy.
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