The Life of Charlotte Bronte
by Elisabeth Jay (Editor, Introduction by, Notes by), Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN-10: 0140434933
ISBN-13: 9780140434934
$19.00
Book Specs
Binding
UK-B Format Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Mar 1, 1998
Edition
2nd Edition
Dimensions
8.50x5.43x1.28 Inches
Weight
0.97 Pounds
About the Book
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.