By the age of eight, Charlotte Bront had lost first her mother and then her two older sisters. Later, in a second wave of deaths, her brother and two younger sisters died, leaving her a sole survivor. With subtlety and imagination, Robert Keefe examines Bront 's works...
Examines Charlotte Bronte's work and the themes of separation and exile in light of her response to and attempts to cope with the death of her mother, brother, and sisters.