A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Charlotte Bronte's 1847 novel.
Rachel Joyce (Author)
Rachel Joyce is the author of the Sunday Times and
international bestsellers The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry,
Perfect, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy, Maureen Fry and
the Angel of the North, The Music Shop, Miss Benson's Beetle, and a
collection of interlinked short stories, A Snow Garden & Other
Stories.
Rachel’s books have been translated into thirty-seven languages and
have sold millions of copies worldwide. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of
Harold Fry was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize and
longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The critically acclaimed film
of the novel, for which Rachel also wrote the screenplay, was
released in 2023. Miss Benson’s Beetle won the Wilbur Smith
Adventure Writing Prize in 2021. Rachel was awarded the Specsavers
National Book Awards New Writer of the Year in December 2012 and
was shortlisted for the UK Author of the Year in 2014. In 2024 she
was awarded an honorary doctorate by Kingston University.
Rachel has written over twenty original afternoon plays and
adaptations of the classics for BBC Radio 4. She lives with her
family near Stroud.
Charlotte Brontë (Author)
Charlotte Brontë was born on 21 April 1816. Her father was
curate of Haworth, Yorkshire, and her mother died when she was five
years old, leaving five daughters and one son. In 1824 Charlotte,
Maria, Elizabeth and Emily were sent to Cowan Bridge, a school for
clergymen's daughters, where Maria and Elizabeth both caught
tuberculosis and died. The children were taught at home from this
point on and together they created vivid fantasy worlds which they
explored in their writing. Charlotte worked as a teacher from 1835
to 1838 and then as a governess. In 1846, along with Emily and
Anne, Charlotte published Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton
Bell.After this Emily wrote Wuthering Heights, Anne wrote Agnes
Grey and Charlotte wrote The Professor. Wuthering Heights and Agnes
Grey were both published but Charlotte's novel was initially
rejected. In 1847 Jane Eyre became her first published novel and
met with immediate success. Between 1848 and 1849 Charlotte lost
her remaining siblings: Emily, Branwell and Anne. She published
Shirley in 1849, Villette in 1853 and in 1854 she married the Rev.
Arthur Bell Nicholls. She died the next year, on 31 March 1855.
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