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'If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed', wrote Charlotte Brontė, the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who had rarely met any men beyond those of the church or classroom by the time Jane Eyre was published in 1847.
From the landscape of the Yorkshire moors, an appalling childhood and a family decimated by consumption, Jane Eyre came as an instant literary sensation. It also brought Charlotte Brontė the notoriety that was to remain with her for the rest of her short and tragic life.
Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte's first biographer, attempted to clear Charlotte of the charges of passionate immorality that were levelled at a woman author - and an unmarried one at that. Rebecca Fraser, 130 years later, placed Charlotte's life within the perceptual framework of contemporary attitudes to women. Her biography is an invaluable contribution to Brontė scholarship, which shares her admiration for a woman prepared to stand out against some of the cruelest Victorian ideas about her sex.
From the landscape of the Yorkshire moors, an appalling childhood and a family decimated by consumption, Jane Eyre came as an instant literary sensation. It also brought Charlotte Brontė the notoriety that was to remain with her for the rest of her short and tragic life.
Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte's first biographer, attempted to clear Charlotte of the charges of passionate immorality that were levelled at a woman author - and an unmarried one at that. Rebecca Fraser, 130 years later, placed Charlotte's life within the perceptual framework of contemporary attitudes to women. Her biography is an invaluable contribution to Brontė scholarship, which shares her admiration for a woman prepared to stand out against some of the cruelest Victorian ideas about her sex.
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"Fraser excellently brings out the raging Charlotte" (Times Literary Supplement)
"The most enjoyable and readable biography of Charlotte Brontė since Mrs Gaskell's" (Literary Review)
"Rebecca Fraser has used her abundant material with a dexterity and sypathy that is beyond praise" (Nigel Nicholson)
"Worthy of its subject...[combines] a social historian's sense of place...[with] a novelist's imaginative feeling for detail" (New York Times)
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"The most enjoyable and readable biography of Charlotte Brontė since Mrs Gaskell's" (Literary Review)
"Rebecca Fraser has used her abundant material with a dexterity and sypathy that is beyond praise" (Nigel Nicholson)
"Worthy of its subject...[combines] a social historian's sense of place...[with] a novelist's imaginative feeling for detail" (New York Times)
'She has taken Charlotte's reputation out of lavender for a new generation of admirers' - Independent
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1784870773
- ISBN 13 9781784870775
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages576
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