Charlotte Brontë : a passionate life / Lyndall Gordon.

By: Gordon, Lyndall Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: New York : W.W.Norton & Company, 1995 Description: xii, 418 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports., facsims. ; 24 cmISBN: 0099386011DDC classification: 920 LOC classification: PR4168 | .G65 1995Online resources: WorldCat details

Contents:

TOC 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.

Summary: "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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Text	Dr. S. R. Lasker Library, EWU Reserve Section	Non-fiction	920 GOC 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C-1	Not For Loan		3273

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First published: London : Chatto & Windus, 1994

Includes bibliography and index

TOC 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.

"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.

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