"What Do I Know"
from The Brontës, a musical

Music by Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed
Lyrics by Sarah Ziegler 
Book by Katie Palmer, Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed, and Sarah Ziegler

Created with Theater in Asylum

Charlotte Brontë performed by Patricia Noonan
Sound Editing and Mixing by Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed

"Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life."
After receiving this crushing response from the poet laureate, Charlotte Brontë went on to write Jane Eyre, spearhead her sisters' writing careers, and break through a Victorian "glass ceiling." Literary history is forever grateful. 
​So why did her family resent her and fall apart?