num_pages: 587
description: Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honor her friend. This edition collates all three previous editions, as well as the manuscript, offering fuller information about the process of writing and a more detailed explanation of the text than any previous edition.
language: English
title: The Life of Charlotte Brontë
titlecomplete: The Life of Charlotte Brontë
characters: Charlotte Brontë
genres: Biography, Literature, Victorian, Classics, British Literature, Nonfiction, Feminism, History, 19th Century, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 8639
publisher: Oxford University Press