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The life of Charlotte Brontë

By Brontë , Charlotte;Taranto , Anne;Stade , George;Gaskell , Elizabeth Cleghorn

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Classics;Barnes & Noble Classics
ISBN
1593083149, 9781411432567, 9780140434934, 9781593083144
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1960730 bytes)
Pages
xlix, 493 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1816-1855;Women novelistsCharlotteEnglish -- 19th century -- BiographyEnglish--19th century;Women novelistsEnglish;Biography;Biographies;BrontëWomen novelists

Description

EDITORIAL REVIEW: Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle An Autobiography. It recounts Charlotte Bronte's life from her isolated childhood, through her years as a writer who had 'foreseen the single life' for herself, to her marriage at thirty-eight and death less than a year later. The resulting work - the first full-length biography of a woman novelist by a woman novelist - explored the nature of Charlotte's genius and almost single-handedly created the Bronte myth.

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