ALBION AND MARINA

Albion and Marina was written by Charlotte Bront? when she was 14 years old. It is her first love story, a romance about star-crossed lovers. Charlotte Bront? (1816 – 1855), English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre (1847) and sister of Anne Bront? and Emily Bront?. The three sisters are almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. In their works they described love more truthfully that was common in Victorian age England. In the past 40 years Charlotte Bront?'s reputation has risen rapidly, and feminist criticism has done much to show that she was speaking up for oppressed women of every age.