June Barraclough. Late Brontëite

The Guardian covers the obituary of June Benn, aka June Barraclough, writer of several novels (The Heart of the Rose, Portrait of Maud, ...) and non-fiction books (The Woman's View or her autobiographical book First Finds: A Yorkshire Childhood).

In her biography we found unequivocal trends of being a Brontëite:

She began lecturing in colleges, on French and the philosophy of education, and also gave a course on 19th-century novels, which she had loved ever since reading Jane Eyre as a young girl - she got very cross with Jane for refusing to live with Mr Rochester after discovering about the mad wife in the attic: love, she already thought, was far more important than marriage. Then came her career as a romantic novelist.

Categories: Brontëites