Claire Harman

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NEWS

Claire is commissioned by Viking Penguin in the UK and Alfred A Knopf in the US to write a major new biography of Charlotte Brontë for the author's bicentenary in 2016

Recent journalism

Times Literary Supplement, 10 February 2012: 'What an amazing man!' , review of The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens, edited by Jenny Hartley.

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Evening Standard, 5 January 2012: 'A Gay Man's Love for a Straight Friend', review of Jack Holmes and His Friend by Edmund White.

Literary Review, December 2011-January 2012: 'Tying the Windsor Knots': review of The Court Journals of Frances Burney, vols 1 and 2.

Times Literary Supplement, 1 December 2011: Books of the Year - the centenary edition of Elizabeth Bishop's Poems and Prose.

Evening Standard, 18 November 2011: Books of the Year - How to Survive the Titanic by Frances Wilson and The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness

Evening Standard, 27 October 2011: 'The Best to Pick Up Austen's Pen', review of Death Comes to Pemberley by P.D.James

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Notting Hill Editions Journal, 13 October 2011: 'The Real Jane Austen'

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Literary Review, October 2011: 'Kidnapped', review of Arthur Ransome's Long-Lost Study of Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Kirsty Nichol Findlay

Evening Standard, 15 September 2011, 'A Brummie's lifelong vision of beauty', review of Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination by Fiona MacCarthy

Evening Standard, 28 July 2011, 'Notes from the Asylum', review of Medical Muses: Hysteria in 19th Century Paris by Asti Hustvedt

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Literary Review, July 2011: 'Island Records', review of Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth by Katherine Frank

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Evening Standard, 16 June 2011: 'The Sore Trial of Being Mrs Oscar', review of Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle