“Working Girls: The Brontës” by Elizabeth Hardwick

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In the May 4, 1972, issue of The New York Review of Books , Elizabeth Hardwick wrote about the lives and work of the Brontë sisters on the occasion of Winifred Gérin’s then-new biography of Emily (preceded by Gérin’s biographies of Anne, Branwell, and Charlotte, and followed in 1973 by her group biography The Brontës ). In this episode of Private Life , Hardwick’s essay is read by Kathleen Chalfant, an actress who has appeared in television, in film, and in stage productions on and off Broadway. She is currently performing in New York in the Playwrights Horizons production of Jacob Perkins’s The Dinosaurs , and she recently starred in Sarah Friedland’s film Familiar Touch (2024). This…