Brontë fans and regular readers of this blog will be in no doubt as to Charlotte Brontë’s esteem for Constantin Heger – first her teacher and then her colleague in Brussels he cast a huge shadow on Charlotte’s life and work. There can be no doubt that Charlotte Brontë fell in love with Monsieur Heger nor that this was an unrequited love. The pain and misery this caused Charlotte Brontë was exquisite, yet it led to the creation of the immortal literary protagonists Edward Rochester o...
