The Life of Charlotte Brontë
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. Although quite frank in many places, Gaskell suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Constantin Héger, a married man, on the grounds that it would be too great an affront to contemporary morals and a possible source of distress to Charlotte's still-living friends, father Patrick Brontë and husband.[1]
The first edition was published in 1857 by Smith, Elder & Co.. A major source was the hundreds of letters sent by Brontë to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Lane 1953, pp. 178–183.
[edit] References
- Lane, Margaret. The Brontë Story: A reconsideration of Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë. 1953.
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