"The year is 1846. In a damp, cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors of northern England, a family seems cursed with disaster: a mother and two children dead; a father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his wife and two eldest children; a son destroyed by alcohol and opiates; and three strong, intelligent young women, reduced to poverty and spinsterhood, with nothing to save them from their fate - nothing, that is, except their remarkable literary talent.". "So unfolds the story of the Bronte sisters - Charlotte, Emily, and Anne. From Sheila Kohler's extensive research and wonderful imagination comes the life of these three young writers. At its center are Charlotte and the writing of Jane Eyre, and the overlapping narratives of author and heroine - including Charlotte's love affair with a married man. Delicately unraveling the powerful and inextricable connections between one of fiction's most indelible heroines and the remarkable woman who created her, Sheila Kohler's Becoming Jane Eyre will appeal to fans of historical fiction and, of course, the millions of readers who adore Jane Eyre."--BOOK JACKET.