elizabeth gaskell the life of charlotte brontë

Over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Bront''e's letters, and thus offers fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition. This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell. Through an often difficult and demanding process, Gaskell created a vital sense of a life hidden from the world. She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters, interviews, and observation, establishing the details of Charlotte's lifeĪnd recreating her background. She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bronte, and, having been invited to write the offical life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour herįriend.

'It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.' Patrick Bronte Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another.

She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgi.

Elizabeth gaskell the life of charlotte brontë