Sophie Franklin
Dr Sophie Franklin is a literary scholar specialising in nineteenth-century literature, with a focus on the Brontë family. Her work explores representations of violence, cultural afterlives, and metaphors of contagion in Victorian literature and culture. She has taught at several universities in the UK, Ireland, and Germany, and writes extensively on the Brontës in various academic and media venues. She is currently based in Dublin.
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Everybody knows Charlotte Brontë. World-famous for her novel Jane Eyre, she’s a giant of literature and has been written about in reverential tones in scores of textbooks over the years. But what do we really know about Charlotte?
Charlotte Brontë Revisited looks at Charlotte through 21st-century eyes. Discover her private world of convention, rebellion and imagination, and how they shaped her life, writing and obsessions – including the paranormal, nature, feminism and politics. It’s a celebration of all things Charlotte, and emphatically shows why she’s as relevant today as she ever was.
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"Interweaves biography and reference to scholarly material with [Franklin's] own take on pertinent aspects of Charlotte's oeuvre ... [Her] witty tone makes the calibration of these two things - the pleasure of the literary enthusiastic and the scholarly - both easy and enjoyable. Franklin deftly mixes contemporary humour with reflectivity ... superbly written, exuberant." Brontë Studies Journal
