Early Bird Books recommends '10 Sweeping Historical Romance Books to Make You Swoon' including two Brontë-related ones.
Mr. Rochester
By Sarah Shoemaker
Shoemaker takes on the daring task of reimagining a literary icon: Edward Rochester, the enigmatic, brooding hero of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Told entirely from Rochester’s perspective, the novel offers a richly imagined backstory that stretches from his lonely boyhood in Thornfield Hall through his education, colonial entanglements in Jamaica, and ultimately to his fateful meeting with Jane.
Shoemaker brings new life to Rochester’s complex character, tracing the wounds left by an emotionally distant father and a rigid social order that sends Edward away to school and then to Jamaica to earn his inheritance. There, he enters a disastrous marriage with Antoinetta Bertha Mason, who becomes central to his moral conflict and emotional reckoning. [...]
Emily's Secret
By Jill Jones
Alex Hightower, an American professor and devoted Emily Brontë enthusiast, travels to England to investigate the enigmatic circumstances surrounding Emily’s untimely death.
Alex is convinced that Emily did not die of natural causes but instead took her life after a secret, passionate love affair that inspired the intense emotions in her famous novel. His quest takes him to the windswept village of Haworth, where he meets Dr. Maggie Flynn in a scholarly debate about the famed author. Alongside the present-day drama unfolds a haunting tale of Emily’s imagined romance, a love so inten se that it could explain the fiery longing between Cathy and Heathcliff inWuthering Heights. (Danielle Kugler)
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