Girl With A Pen: Charlotte Brontë

I read this book, by Elizabeth Kyle, thinking that it was A), a biography, and B), somewhat challenging. While it was really neither, I enjoyed it. As the author stated in the Afterward (which should have been a Forward), it's a fictionalized biography, but it manages to convey the important pieces of her life with simple charm. It's not at all challenging, but it's living, and therefore its simple prose does not jar. It completely ignores Charlotte's later life, and mainly focuses on her writing, but considering that it would probably be depressing if it did not do so, I didn't mind so much. This was a book we picked up at a booksale knowing nothing about, but I enjoyed it quite a bit, and much better than some other, more lauded, children's biographies. (Of course, most children will not be reading her works, so perhaps it is not necessary to have a biography...)