Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius

Winifred Eveleen Gérin, née Bourne (1901–1981) was an English biographer best known for her extensively researched works on the Brontë family, including biographies of Anne, Branwell, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë. Her seminal work, Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius (1967), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, and Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize. She also authored biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Burney, Horatia Nelson, and Anne Thackeray Ritchie, and was appointed OBE in 1975.