{"product_id":"the-life-of-charlotte-bronte-paperback-9781108020503","title":"The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108020503","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Life of Charlotte Brontë\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGaskell's successful biography helped to establish the Brontës' public image as a family characterised by literary genius and personal tragedy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eElizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108020503, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 September 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 2 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.1 cm, 0.47 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePublished two years after the novelist's death, this two-volume work is the first and the best-known of the many biographies of the Brontë family. Written by the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–65), the book was instrumental in the creation of the Brontës' 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 Brontë ancestry, Charlotte's time at school and as a governess, her juvenilia, the 'deplorable conduct' of her laudanum-addicted brother Branwell, and the publication of her poems, along with those of her sisters Anne and Emily, in the volume Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell in 1846.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Description of Keighley and its neighbourhood\u003cbr\u003e 2. Characteristics of Yorkshiremen\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Rev. Patrick Brontë\u003cbr\u003e 4. Miss Branwell comes to Haworth\u003cbr\u003e 5. The old servant Tabby\u003cbr\u003e 6. Personal description of Charlotte Brontë\u003cbr\u003e 7. Charlotte Brontë leaves school, and returns home to instruct her sisters\u003cbr\u003e 8. Charlotte as teacher at Miss Wooler's school\u003cbr\u003e 9. Branwell Brontë still at home\u003cbr\u003e 10. Second experience of governess life\u003cbr\u003e 11. Mr. Brontë accompanies his daughters to Brussels\u003cbr\u003e 12. Charlotte returns to Brussels\u003cbr\u003e 13. Plan of school-keeping revived and abandoned\u003cbr\u003e 14. Publication of the poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265951453464,"sku":"9781108020503","price":29.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108020503i_ed01c1e5-7943-43b0-9a32-0584dc8756bc.jpg?v=1694869618","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-life-of-charlotte-bronte-paperback-9781108020503","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}