Charlotte Brontë
Subtitle: a passionate life
By: Lyndall Gordon.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Norton; W. W. Norton
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Brontë, Charlotte, -- 1816-1855 -- Biography; Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography
Other titles: A passionate life.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 397-407) and index.