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Claire Harman reads an extract from her book Charlotte BrontΓ«: A Life
Having previously written biographies on Jane Austen and Robert Louis Stevenson, Harmanβs latest book tackles another literary giant, Charlotte BrontΓ«. In this extract, she describes a time when Bronte, who was living in Brussels at the time, felt drawn to a Catholic church to confess her sins.
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