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How Charlotte Brontë’s Shyness Helped Make Her a Storyteller ‹ Literary Hub

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“What is this new book of Miss Brontë’s, do you know?” Elizabeth asked Janet. “It will be very interesting to hear more of her sisters but rather difficult for her to do it well and discreetly.” After hearing Charlotte was depressed, Elizabeth, Janet and Harriet Martineau discussed their concerns. Harriet told Charlotte to come stay with her in Ambleside, having heard “from one of her acquaintance in London that she is in a very unsatisfactory state of health…I shall do my best to take care of her.” The day before Charlotte went, Harriet explained why she was so accommodating to one so notorious. “I like Currer Bell’s letters: but then, I knew herself before I knew her letters; & that makes much difference…” They had been writing since Harriet deciphered the note that came with Shirley. A few weeks after it, she was finishing dessert with her cousin Richard and his wife, Lucy, in their house near Hyde Park, when a messenger burst in with a suave-sounding note signed by Currer Bell: “It

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