Manuela Santoni

In a time of formal dances, courtyard courtships, and strict ideas about a woman's role in the world, Jane Austen looked at the England around her and created unforgettable art. Before she was the beloved author of Pride and Prejudice and other classic novels, Jane Austen was a young woman wrestling with society's expectations and challenges of the heart. Her own story involves choices that changed literary history--and perhaps even the choice to walk away from love. This graphic imagining of Jane Austen's youth includes her creative awakening and her much-speculated-upon encounters with Tom Lefroy, a brash law student. Jane Austen: Her Heart Did Whisper is a vision of the thrills and pains of young romance, the bonds of sisterhood, and the decisions that make a person who she is.

In un'epoca vittoriana artificiosa e opaca, nella campagna inglese di metà Ottocento, Charlotte, Emily e Anne - con un padre ormai anziano e un fratello dedito al bere - si ritrovano a far fronte da sole alle sorti economiche della famiglia Brontë. E lo fanno a modo loro: superando con orgoglio e con coraggio le difficoltà e i primi fallimenti, e trasformando il loro talento creativo e la passione per la scrittura in una fonte primaria di sostentamento, per poter vivere finalmente una vita intensa, in piena libertà.