The Life of Charlotte Brontë

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  title={The Life of Charlotte Bront{\"e}},
  author={Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell}
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Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bronte, and, having been invited to write the official life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters, interviews, and observation, establishing the… 
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  • Art, Linguistics
    Victorian Literature and Culture
  • 2013
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