The hard-won triumphs of the Brontës are the subject of a new Masterpiece drama.
it is the struggle to survive, not literary ambition—though that ambition is a strong one—that takes precedence in the lives of these sisters.
.. father distinctly more concerned with his only son, Branwell (Adam Nagaitis) than with the doings of his dutiful daughters.
.. Their ultimate triumph arrives with the emergence of their actual identities after writing wildly successful works, all under male-sounding pseudonyms.
.. Charlotte gave when asked why she liked to write anonymously. If offered one gift by a good fairy it would be, “Grant me the power to walk invisible.”