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{ June 2022 - Verified ebook for complete book description, cover image, table of contents, separation of book (front/ back matter, parts, and chapters), and epub format error checking. } Paperback, 544 pages Published: 1857 Barnes & Noble Classics Series (2005) Introduction by: Anne Taranto In 1855 Charlotte Brontë, pregnant and married less than a year, fell ill and died of tuberculosis—the same disease that had killed her sisters and brother. Two years after Charlotte’s death, her friend Elizabeth Gaskell, herself a well-known novelist, completed work on The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a biography that was met with immediate acclaim by readers curious to discover more about the enigmatic author of Jane Eyre. Both a work of art and a well-documented interpretation of its subject, Gaskell’s biography is an extraordinarily vivid and sensitive account of Brontë’s outer and inner lives: her shyness and strangeness; her intense appreciation of the Bible, poetry, music, and the theater; her love of her family; and her fears of loneliness. Meant to be a defense and vindication of “a noble, true, and tender woman,” the book paints Brontë as an unforgettable figure careening between depress
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- Author
- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Anne Taranto, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble Classics
- Published
- 1857
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781411432567
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.88 / 5 (87 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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