MIRANDA PENNINGTON


A Girl Walks into a Book What the Brontës Taught Me about Life, Love, and Women’s Work


A quirky, literary memoir-meets- biography as the author explores her own coming-of-age alongside the Brontë sisters’ lives and works


H ow many times have you heard


arguments about which is better: Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights? Charlotte, Emily, and


Anne Brontë’s writings still provoke passionate fandom over a century after their deaths. Miranda Pennington’s father gave her Jane Eyre when she was ten, sparking her lifelong devotion. As Pennington dove into the Brontës, she found that they could be her lifeline, her sounding board, even her closest friends. In this offbeat memoir, Pennington traces the


development of the Brontës as women and as writers, as she recounts her own struggles as bookish and shy. In the sisters and their charac- ters, Pennington finds the heroines she needs, taking cues from their wisdom and fearlessness. A Girl Walks into a Book is a candid love affair that braids criticism, biography, and memoir into a meditation on literature’s place in our lives.


MIRANDA PENNINGTON is a writer and teacher in New York. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in the Toast, the Ploughshares Blog, The American Scholar Online, and The Catapult podcast.


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