Selected Letters of Charlotte Bronte
Margaret Smith's new Selected Letters is extremely welcome...it represents an impressive achievement of choice; it reads remarkably fluently, and gives us almost all of Charlotte's most powerful letters...This scholarly and affordable volume provides vivid access to Charlotte Bronte's inner life through an admirably well-chosen core of accurate, annotated texts. Patsy Stoneman, Review of English Studies a very welcome selection at an affordable price... Margaret Smith has more than earned the plaudits of Bronte lovers for her patient and scrupulous work, in establishing reliable texts of Charlotte's letters, and in annotating them so expertly. Mark Bostridge, Independent on Sunday enhances her reputation as a woman of wit and imagination Hannah Hudson, Tribune a perfect introduction (or re-introduction) to Charlotte Bronte's epistolary style, a highly valuable, first-hand source of information on the author who wrote some of the most important novels in English Literature and her siblings. Reading these accurate transcriptions of Charlotte Bronte's letters is pure magic - a momentary lapse into what her correspondents might have felt. BronteBlog