This highly acclaimed biography 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. Lyndall Gordon looks at the shared gifts and class ambitions of the BronteĀØ family, and also at significant peopleāthe active feminist Mary Taylor, the demanding mentor Constantin Heger, the rising publisher George Smithāwhom Charlotte strove to possess in life and fiction. Drawing on unpublished letters, the āRoe Head Journal,ā early stories, the manuscript of Villette, and her last, unfinished novel, Lyndall Gordon explores the gaps in Charlotte BronteĀØās life. How did she arrive at her understanding of passion from a womanās point of view? Could she resolve the testing conflict between a writerās life and a seemingly incongruous marriage to the devoted curate Arthur Bell Nicholls? Looking into the shadow between the facts, Gordon takes biography into that unseen space where this woman of genius was able to live.
This book title, Charlotte Bronte (A Passionate Life), ISBN: 9780393314489, by Lyndall Gordon, published by W. W. Norton & Company (May 17, 1996) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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