by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · Oxford University Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9780192502148
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«Life of Charlotte Brontë» is the biography of Charlotte Brontë written by Elizabeth Gaskell, published by Oxford University Press in hardback (500 pages).
After Charlotte Brontë's death, Elizabeth Gaskell reconstructs her life from letters, interviews and personal memories. The book portrays the novelist's reserved character, her dedication to writing and the losses that marked her family, and helped fix the public image of the author of Jane Eyre.
The work was originally published in 1857; this 1978 edition belongs to the World's Classics collection and includes an introduction by Clement Shorter.
For readers of literary biographies and the Victorian period interested in the figure of Charlotte Brontë and the perspective of Elizabeth Gaskell.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer detailed studies of Victorian society, including the lives of the very poor. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Her only biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, published in 1857, was controversial and significant in establishing the Brontë family's lasting fame. Among Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851–1853), North and South (1854–1855), and Wives and Daughters (1864–1866), all of which have been adapted for television by the BBC.
