Review:
a monumental and scholarly work ... unquestionably the definitive edition, allowing us to read the unexpurgated version of Charlotte's letters for the first time, and will be compulsory reading for Brontė scholars and enthusiasts alike. (Daily Telegraph)
brilliant and scrupulous Notes (Observer)
This first volume of Charlotte's letters is an invaluable scholarly resource and a stirring story ... (Sunday Times)
For anyone interested in how life is transmuted into art, this volume will be a pleasure. (Financial Times)
The strength of this volume of letters, many published for the first time, is that it allows Charlotte to speak with her own voice. For anyone interested in how life is transmuted into art, this volume will be a pleasure. (Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times)
It is a work of painstaking scholarship: she has located new letters and redated and established accurate texts for old ones...Margaret Smith has made a magnificent job of disinterring Charlotte Bronte's own letters, and in doing so has inaugurated a new era in Bronte studies. (The Independent on Sunday)
a monumental and scholarly work. The redating of many letters is particularly important ... this is unquestionably the definitive edition, allowing us to read the unexpurgated version of Charlotte's letters for the first time, and will be compulsory reading for Bronte scholars and enthusiasts alike. (The Daily Telegraph)
Margaret Smith, an exemplary editor, provides all the biographical grounding you could want. There is hardly a reference she does not explain, hardly a fictional echo she does not pick up (The Guardian)
Readers must be grateful to Margaret Smith for the recovery of accurate texts - as accurate as they can be at this point in time, given their wanderings, dismemberments and mutilations ... The restoration of the texts themselves is a triumph of meticulous labour. (The Independent)
now, at last, we have this reliable text, painstakingly reassembled and scrupulously edited by Margaret Smith ... This first volume of Charlotte's letters is an invaluable scholarly resource and a stirring story, resonant with powerful feeling, in which a hidden imaginative life stubbornly forces its way through the thickets of domesticity into the light of day. I can hardly wait for the sequel. (The Sunday Times)
About the Author:
Margaret Smith is a renowned Brontė scholar, textual editor of the Clarendon edition of Charlotte Brontė's novels (General editor, Ian Jack), and co-editor with ian Jack of the three volumes. For OUP she is the co-editor of the following works of Charlotte Brontė: Jane Eyre (1969, rev. 1975), and editor of Jane Eyre in the OENS series (1973, into WC in 1975); Shirley (1979, into WC in 1981); Villette (1984, into WC in 1990); The Professor (1987, into WC in 1991). Co-editor of Anne Brontė's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1992), and of Robert Browning's The Poetical Works (Vols 1&2, 1983, Vol. 4, 1991).
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