The life of Charlotte Brontë
Language: English
19th century 1816-1855 Ancient (Classical) Greek Autobiography Biography Biography & Autobiography Biography: General Biography: Literary British Isles Bront'e; Charlotte BrontŠe; Charlotte; Bronte; Charlotte Bronte; Charlotte; Bronte; Charlotte; 1816-1855 English English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh European Gaskell; Elizabeth Cleghorn; 1810-1865 General Literary Literary Criticism Literary essays Literary studies: 19th century Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction; novelists & prose writers Novelists; English Novelists; English - 19th century Other prose: 19th century Women Women authors Women novelists; English
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Aug 15, 1997
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.