
Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell
How they constructed the Bronte story
Edward Chitham(Author)
Edward Everett Root (Publisher)
Published on 30. June 2025
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-1-915115-55-3 (ISBN)
Description
This unusual new book by the leading Brontë scholar examines key issues in literary and biographical history, as a specific and a general question with wide ramifications.
It examines a great deal of explicit and implicit evidence about Charlotte Brontë's own management of the story of the family - what has become known as 'The Brontë Myth'.
It carefully explores the story of the Brontës as transmitted by Elizabeth Gaskell, who was empowered to tell the story after Charlotte's death. Edward Chitham shows how Charlotte slanted the story, and her strategy in doing so.
The work provides a major new focus for Charlotte's life and work. It searches out motivations and attitudes, carefully considering the personalities and intentions of these writers of fiction and of fact.
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
638 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915115-55-3 (9781915115553)
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