This novel centring on life after a Brontë sister’s death suffers from a sprawling timeline and fails to build narrative momentum
Charlotte by Martina Devlin: Unravelling a Brontë psychology of uneasy inheritances and divided loyaltiesCurator Sarah Laycock with the last Charlotte Brontë miniature manuscript book known to be in private hands. Photograph: Danny Lawson/PANine years after the death of Charlotte Brontë in 1855, her widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls, married his cousin and fellow Protestant, Mary Anna Bell, in whose family home in Banagher, Co Offaly, he had grown up .
The Invention of Charlotte Brontë by Graham Watson: How the influential 1857 biography of the writer took on a life of its own Like Devlin’s previous novel, Edith , Charlotte articulates an Anglo-Irish psychology of uneasy inheritances and divided loyalties – though crowded incidents and a sprawling timeline prevent it from achieving the atmospheric intensity, or the narrative momentum, that Edith’s tightly focalised, linear structure enabled.
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