Helen MacEwan studied modern languages at Oxford University. A translator and former teacher, she is the author of The Brontes in Brussels, a guide to Charlotte and Emily Bronte's time at the Pensionnat Heger, and Down the Belliard Steps: Discovering the Brontes in Brussels. And most recently, Winifred Gerin: Biographer of the Brontes (Adds significantly to Bronte studies and literary biography: Claire Harman, biographer and critic, author of Charlotte Bronte: A Life).