Who knew Charlotte wrote such racy stuff?

Here’s An AP Article on Charlotte Bronte’s novella Stancliffe’s Hotel, written in 1838, will be published for the first time, shedding new light on one of Britain’s most famous writers. It will be published by Penguin in June and later this year in a volume with four other novellas set in the fictional kingdom of Angria, created by Charlotte and her brother Branwell.

“I think it will change the way in which she’s still seen, rather patronizingly, as a woman writer who wrote only about her own concerns,” said Glen, who teaches at Cambridge University. “It’s very humorous and racy; there’s something almost modernist about it with the odd juxtaposition of scenes.”