Charlotte's web

       

    "It is salutary to discover that her novels, for all their stormy emotionalism, their troubling atmosphere of psycho-drama, their sense of a life lived on the edge of the nerves, are also full of fun, and of a wonderfully sensuous response to landscape, music, painting, and to the small, domestic pleasures of a warm fire, hot tea, the smell of fresh-baked bread."

    Angela Carter on Charlotte Brontë, from Writers as Readers: A Celebration of Virago Modern Classics.