Picking Up Where Charlotte Bronte Left Off

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040413
Author:Aileen Jacobson

Four years ago, novelist Clare Boylan innocently asked a question at a literary festival in England that led to, of all things, her co- authoring a book with Charlotte Bronte.

Yes, that Charlotte Bronte, the one who wrote "Jane Eyre" and died 149 years ago.

What Boylan, 55, asked was whether Bronte would have continued writing after her 1854 marriage if she hadn't died nine months later, at age 38.

In response, Bronte biographers Lyndall Gordon and Juliet Barker told her about a two-chapter manuscript Bronte wrote just before her marriage and might have completed had she lived longer.

"I was ...

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