"A brilliant and riveting examination of the Bronte phenomenon." - "Daily Mail"
"A sharp-witted study in literary reputation... Miller supplies a deft and immaculately detailed tracing of the many "constructions" of Charlotte Bronte." - Joanna Griffiths, "Observer"

Lucasta Miller read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She has published research on Milton and worked as a literary journalist, reviewing for, among others, The Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the New Statesman, the TLS, the Economist and the Independent, of which she was Deputy Literary Editor. She is married to the tenor Ian Bostridge and lives in London. This is her first book.