The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Softcover

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192838059 ISBN 13: 9780192838056

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2001

Synopsis

'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Brontė Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontė (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontė, and, having been invited to write the offical life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters, interviews, and observation, establishing the details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background. Through an often difficult and demanding process, Gaskell created a vital sense of a life hidden from the world. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Bront"'e's letters, and thus offers fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition.

About this title

About the Author:

ELIZABETH GASKELL was born in London in 1810. She married a minister, and her literary output was substantial and completely professional. Many of her works are available in Penguin Classics, including NORTH AND SOUTH, SYLVIA'S LOVERS, and WIVES AND DAUGHTERS. She died suddenly in 1865.

ELISABETH JAY has taught and lectured at various universities in Great Britain and the USA, and is currently Head of Westminster College, Oxford. Her books include FAITH AND DOUBT IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0192838059
• ISBN 13: 9780192838056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624