"The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The first edition was published in 1857, and a major source of the text was the hundreds of letters sent by Brontë to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey. Although quite frank in many places, Gaskell suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Constantin Héger, a married man, on the grounds that it would be too great an affront to contemporary morals and a possible source of distress to Charlotte's still-living friends and family. She also suppressed any reference to Charlotte's romance with George Smith, her publisher, who was also publishing the biography."
*2 Beatrice E. Stanley suggests this was via Hainworth Shay and Cradle Edge; see “Changes at Haworth,” BST, ... *6 Charlotte passed on to Ellen the news “from all hands” that “Mr. Robinson had altered his will before he died and ...
It is a uniquely intimate and complex insight into one of Britain's best loved writers. This is the literary biography of the year; if you loved Claire Tomalin's Charles Dickens, this event is not to be missed.
Until it comes out , the essential edition is The Brontës : Their Lives , Friendships and Correspondence , i - iv , ed . Thomas J. Wise and J. Alexander Symington ( Oxford : Blackwell , 1933 , repr . 1980 ) . This is a chronological and ...
" From Syrie James, the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen, comes a powerfully compelling, intensely researched literary feat that blends historical fact and fiction to explore the passionate heart and unquiet ...
17 In early March, Dr Charles Longley, Bishop of Ripon (later to become Archbishop of Canterbury), visited the parish. Arthur was necessarily involved in arranging this visit, and was therefore constantly present in the Brontë house.
Clare Hartwell, Nikolaus Pevsner, and Elizabeth Williamson, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire (New Haven, ... Patrick Brontë, His Collected Works and Life, ed., J. Horsefall Turner (Bingley: T. Harrison & Sons, 1898), 42.
It is also a companion volume to McCrum's very successful 100 Best Novels published by Galileo in 2015. The list of books starts in 1611 with the King James Bible and ends in 2014 with Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction.
With an introduction by Alison Bechdel, Charlotte Brontë before Jane Eyre presents a stunning examination of a woman who battled against the odds to make her voice heard.
This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of The Brontes’.
Brontë fans will also revel in the insights into their favorite novels, the plethora of poetry, and the outstanding collection of more than sixty black-and-white archival images.