Charlotte Brontë's final masterpiece powerfully portrays a woman struggling to reconcile love, jealousy, and a fierce desire for independence. Having fled a harrowing past in England, Lucy Snowe begins a new life teaching at a boarding school in the great capital of a foreign country. There, as she tries to achieve independence from both outer necessity and inward grief, she finds that her feelings for a worldly doctor and a dictatorial professor threaten her hard-won self-possession. Published in 1853, Charlotte Bronte's last novel was written in the wake of her grief at the death of her siblings. It has a dramatic force comparable to that of her other masterpiece, Jane Eyre, as well as a striking modernity of psychological insight and a revolutionary understanding of human loneliness.
Sobre o autor(a)
Brontë, Charlotte
CHARLOTTE BRONTË (1816-1855), escritora inglesa, é autora de Jane Eyre, Emma e
O professor, entre outros. Uma das três “irmãs Brontë” – as escritoras Charlotte, Emily
e Anne Brontë –, com elas publicou uma coletânea de poemas, sob os pseudônimos
de Currer, Ellis e Acton Bell. Conheceu o sucesso ainda em vida e influenciou diversas
gerações de escritoras. Morreu vítima de tuberculose, no início de uma gestação. |