Charlotte Brontë Revisited

Dr Sophie Franklin is a lecturer and researcher in the English department at Tübingen University, in Germany. Her research specialises in nineteenth-century literature and culture, with expertise in representations of violence, the Brontës, and afterlives. She has taught at several institutions, including Nottingham Trent University and the University of Newcastle. Sophie received her PhD from Durham University after receiving a First from St Andrews University. Alongside her academic career, she has co-organised Brontë conferences, worked at the Brontë Society, in bookselling, and as an editorial assistant for an independent publishing house.

‘Interweaves biography and reference to scholarly material with [Franklin’s] own take on pertinent aspects of Charlotte’s oeuvre ... [Her] witty tone makes the calibration of these two things — the pleasure of the literary enthusiastic and the scholarly — both easy and enjoyable. Franklin deftly mixes contemporary humour with reflectivity ... superbly written, exuberant.’