Charlotte, the debut novel by Elizabeth Ferris, is a historical reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s life during the turbulent year she wrote Jane Eyre. Facing rejection from publishers, financial pressures, and expectations that women abandon their literary ambitions, Brontë refuses to surrender her dream of becoming a novelist.
Ferris is a writer and writing teacher based in West Virginia. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and has taught at the Studio School at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Richmond Young Writers.
Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of Charlotte, designed by Elsie Lyons. Below, Ferris discusses drawing inspiration from the Brontë Parsonage Museum, incorporating the tools of Charlotte Brontë’s writing life, and how a simple ink blot captures the determination and frustration of one of literature’s most celebrated authors.
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