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Charlotte Brontë :

Gordon, Lyndall.

Charlotte Brontë : a passionate life / Lyndall Gordon. - New York : W.W.Norton & Company, 1995 - xii, 418 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., facsims. ; 24 cm.

First published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1994

Includes bibliography and index

The unseen space --
False idols, true friends --
Egypt and the promised land --
Loves language --
A public voice --
To walk invisible --
The limits of friendship --
Buried fire --
Marriage --
Surviving. TOC

"Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones. Instead we see a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. This biography looks at the shared gifts and class ambitions of the Bronte family - at the active feminist, Mary Taylor; at the demanding mentor, Constantin Heger; and at the rising publisher, George Smith - as Charlotte strove to possess them in life and fiction. Her highly autobiographical novels refused current bars to women's writing to release a public voice which could speak intimately to her readers."--BOOK JACKET.



0099386011

PR4168 / .G65 1995

920 / GOC 1995