The Life and Work of Charlotte Brontë

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Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life and Work of Charlotte Brontë is a foundational act of Victorian literary biography, tracing Brontë's austere Yorkshire upbringing, intense family life, creative discipline, and emergence as the author of Jane Eyre. Written in a lucid, sympathetic, and morally serious prose style, the book blends documentary evidence, personal recollection, and narrative portraiture. It belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of memorial biography, yet it also helped shape modern perceptions of female authorship, genius, suffering, and domestic constraint. Gaskell, herself a major Victorian novelist and the author of Mary Barton, Cranford, and North and South, was well placed to understand Brontë's position as a woman writer negotiating public fame and private reticence. Her friendship with Brontë gave her access to intimate testimony, while her own experience of literary professionalism sharpened her sensitivity to the pressures, misunderstandings, and moral expectations surrounding women's writing in the period. This book is recommended to readers interested in the Brontës, Victorian culture, literary biography, and the history of women's authorship. Though shaped by its era's conventions, it remains moving, intelligent, and indispensable.

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Produktart:	Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik:	Sachliteratur
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028336585
ISBN-10:	8028336582
Sprache:	Englisch
Autor:	Gaskell, Elizabeth
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Elizabeth Gaskell
Gewicht:	0,345 kg