Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë, and, having been invited to write the offical 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 details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background. Through an often difficult and demanding process, Gaskell created a vital sense of a life hidden from the world. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Brontë's letters, and thus offers fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë -
Elizabeth Gaskell
Oxford University Press
2009
624 páginas
20h 48m
ISBN-13: 9780199554768
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Escritora britânica e contista da era vitoriana, conhecida também como Mrs. Gaskell. Seus romances oferecem um retrato detalhado das vidas de muitos estratos da sociedade, incluindo os muito pobres, e, como tal, são de interesse para os historiadores sociais, bem como os amantes da literatura. Suas obras mais famosas são os romances <i>North & South</i> (1854–5) e <i>Cranford</i> (1851-3); e a biografia <i>The Life of Charlotte Brontë</i> (1857).
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