A review by abeth_parker
Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler

2.0

I knew going in that this book was not nonfiction. It is a fictionalized novel about the life experiences of the Bronte sisters, focusing on Charlotte. Even knowing that the book would not be based entirely on fact and would be partly coming from the author's imagination, I couldn't get in to this book. Of course, there is no way to know what anyone from the past was really like. I still couldn't follow along with the author's view of the experiences of their lives and their family relationships.
The biggest redeeming quality about the book is that it brings out the parallels between the experiences of the sisters and the novels they wrote. Certainly, their lives were to an extent reflected in what they wrote.