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SELECTED LETTERS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE
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| By: |
Margaret Smith (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0199205876 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780199205875 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2007 |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Description: |
An intimate insight into Charlotte Bronte's life at Haworth Parsonage, her experiences in a Belgian school, and her passionate attraction to Constantin Heger, husband of the school's directress. We learn of the astonishing success of Jane Eyre, Charlotte's agony over the early death of her brother Branwell and of Emily and Anne, and her secret correspondence with and tragically brief happy marriage to Arthur Nicholls, cut short by her death in1855. |
| Synopsis: |
These letters give an insight into the life of a writer whose novels continue to be bestsellers. They reveal much about Charlotte Bronte's personal life, her family relationships, and the society in which she lived. Many of her early letters are written with vigour, vivacity, and an engaging aptitude for self-mockery. In contrast, her letters to her 'master', the Belgian schoolteacher Constantin Heger, reveal her intense, obsessive longing for some response from him. Other letters are deeply moving, when Charlotte endures the agony of her brother's and sisters' untimely deaths. We learn also of the progress of her writing, including the astonishing success of Jane Eyre, and of her contacts with her publishers, including the young George Smith; and we recognize in her letters the life-experiences which are transmuted into the art of her novels. Contemporary society is brilliantly described in her letters from London, when she writes of her encounters with famous writers and with critics of her |
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15 black and white plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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Returnable |