User:Literaturelover12/sandbox

Jolien Janzing (the Netherlands) is a Dutch author and journalist who grew up in Flanders. She has followed up her debut novel Grammatica van een Obsessie (Grammar of an Obsession) with the historical bestselling novel Charlotte Brontë’s  Secret Love, in which she shines a light on a tantalizing episode in the lives of two  great nineteenth-century authors, Charlotte and Emily Brontë. Jolien Janzing is a connoisseur of nineteenth-century English literature.

Career
Dutch by birth, Jolien Janzing (1964) grew up in Belgium. She has published the following: Of Charlotte Brontë’s Secret Love the following translations have been commissioned: The novel is also being translated into Italian and Japanese by Maddalena De Leo and Akiko Highuchi.
 * 2004: Je kind of je dromen (Your Child or Your Dreams), an essay about motherhood and ambition.
 * 2009: Grammatica van een obsessie (Grammar of an Obsession), a novel about a destructive obsession.
 * 2009: Mannenliefde (Male Love), ten love stories about well-known gay couples.
 * 2013: De Meester - de geheime liefde van Charlotte Brontë in het negentiende-eeuwse Brussel (The Master – The Secret Love of Charlotte Brontë in Nineteenth-Century Brussels; UK title: Charlotte Brontë's Secret Love).
 * 3 October 2015: English translation Charlotte Brontë's Secret Love by award winning translator Paul Vincent in the United Kingdom – publisher World Editions.
 * December 2015: German translation by Wibke Kühn – publisher LangenMüller.
 * 2015-2016: French translation in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Canada – publisher Editions L’Archipel & Archipoche.
 * Early 2016: Turkish translation by Güldünya Yayinlari.

British film producer David P. Kelly has taken an option on the film rights of Charlotte Brontë's Secret Love.

The bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth will be celebrated in 2016.

Charlotte Brontë's Secret Love
Synopsis:

Charlotte Brontë, a parson’s daughter from Yorkshire in England, fragile yet fearless as a young fox, longs for adventure, self-fulfilment and passionate love. She conceives the idea of going abroad to study languages. She manages to persuade her sister Emily to accompany her, on the pretext that later, with an additional knowledge of languages, they will be able to set up a school of their own. Brussels, the capital of the brand-new kingdom of Belgium, with its Catholic liberalism and French wine, represents a culture shock. The Pensionnat Heger is run by madame Claire Heger, an elegant, shrewd lady. Charlotte falls in love with her husband, monsieur Constantin Heger, who teaches the English sisters French literature. However, like many Belgian men he is a Don Juan without a compass. Meanwhile Emile, a good-looking Flemish workman, also makes a bid for Charlotte’s favour. Will she opt for a scandalous liaison with a married man, for an honourable marriage to a man of the people, or for an unattached, but lonely existence as a writer?

Charlotte’s story is interwoven with that of Arcadie Claret, the young mistress of Leopold I, king of the Belgians. Charlotte first sees the girl on the beach in Ostend. Arcadie is so attractive, dearly loved and beautifully dressed, and stands in such sharp contrast to herself, that Charlotte becomes violently jealous of her. In writing Jane Eyre she opposes the time-honoured idea of the stunningly attractive heroine. The beautiful Blanche Ingram is inspired by Arcadie Claret, and St. John Rivers by the workman Emile.

Acknowledgments
The Master – the secret love of Charlotte Brontë was the only Dutch-language entry selected for Books at Berlinale 2013.