The Brontës: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family

by Juliet Barker

intellectually and emotionally, had marked her for life. She had successfully undergone the rigours of an academic discipline imposed by Monsieur Heger, emerging as a better and more powerful writer. And she had fallen in love for the first time – with a man who was the antithesis of everything that she had previously valued. Monsieur Heger was as far removed as it was possible to be from Zamorna: small, ugly, short-tempered and, above all, Catholic, he shared only his married state with the hero who had dominated Charlotte’s imagination for so long. Her unrequited passion for him was to alter permanently and radically her vision of what the male hero should be. The future creator of Mr Rochester and Paul Emanuel was born.