“Like a tree in full bearing” Louise Brealey reads Charlotte Brontë’s letter to W. S. Williams

Charlotte Brontë was the eldest of the Brontë sisters, three siblings whose novels--Charlotte’s Jane Eyre, Emily’s Wuthering Heights, and Anne’s The Tenant of Wildfell Halls, to name but three--are now considered classics. In 1848, Emily died from tuberculosis; she was just 30 years old. A few days after her death, Charlotte wrote to her publisher. The letter is read by Louise Brealey for LETTERS LIVE. Louise Brealey is an actor, journalist, playwright and producer, best known f