The Life of Charlotte Bront by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 9781108020503

The Life of Charlotte BrontAuthor(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108020503, 978-1108020503\nSynopsis\nPublished two years after the novelist's death, this two-volume work is the first and the best-known of the many biographies of the Bront family. Written by the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell [tel], the book was instrumental in the creation of the Bronts' public image as a family set apart by literary genius and personal tragedy. Gaskell's chief source for the biography was some 350 letters between Charlotte and her friend Ellen Nussey, letters which Charlotte's husband had asked Nussey to destroy after his wife's death, fearing they would damage her reputation. Volume 1 consists of 14 chapters and covers the Bront ancestry, Charlotte's time at school and as a governess, her juvenilia, the 'deplorable conduct' of her laudanum-addicted brother Branwell, and the publ.