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The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Elizabeth Gaskell

Form
Form Non-fiction
Year
Year 1857
Pages
Pages 540

A novelist tells the life of her dead friend, another novelist: a bleak Yorkshire parsonage, three sisters writing in secret, a family emptied by illness, and a woman of genius still owing the daily duties of a daughter and a wife.

Henceforward Charlotte Brontë's existence becomes divided into two parallel currents—her life as Currer Bell, the author; her life as Charlotte Brontë, the woman.
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