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TAKING THE BATON FROM A BRONTE

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20040502
Author:Robin Dougherty

What do you do when you learn that Charlotte Bronte, your favorite 19th-century author, left behind the opening chapters of an incomplete work? If you are novelist Clare Boylan, the answer is simple. Reader, she finished it. Shortly before her marriage to Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854 and her death less than a year later of toxemia from her pregnancy, Bronte had begun a story about a young girl, seemingly rich, who is deposited at the cloyingly named Fuchsia Lodge, a subpar girls' school, by a man claiming to be her father. Plain but intelligent, she's treated with favor by the Misses ...

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