Inspired by a box of wooden toy soldiers given as a present to her elder brother Branwell in 1826, Charlotte Bronte created,...

The well-educated daughter of a penniless clergyman, Agnes Grey is treated like a child by her family and so sets out to prove...

When the orphaned William refuses his uncles' proposal to become a clergyman and angrily leaves his job in the counting-house of...

The tale of Heathcliff and Cathy’s ungovernable love and suffering, and the havoc that their passion wreaks on the families of...