Selected letters / Charlotte Brontë ; edited by Margaret Smith ; with a new introduction by Janet Gezari
- Author
- Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
- Published
- Oxford, UK ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2010]
- Copyright Date
- ©2010
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xliv, 273 pages).
- Additional Creators
- Smith, Margaret, 1931- and Gezari, Janet
Access Online
- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- List of Letters; List of Abbreviations and Symbols; Preface; Introduction; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Charlotte Brontë; THE LETTERS; Biographical Notes; Index.
- Summary
- Dangerous as lucifer matches.'That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Bront--euml--;'s husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct source of information about the lives of the Bront--euml--;s and our closest approach to the author of Jane Eyre. In them Charlotte writes of life at Haworth Parsonage, her experiences at a Belgian school, and her intense feelings for the Belgianschoolteacher, M. Heger. She endures the agony of the death of her siblings, and enj.
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- ISBN
- 9780191612879 (electronic bk.)
0191612871 (electronic bk.)
1283296888
9781283296885
9780191624940 (electronic bk.)
0191624942 (electronic bk.)
9780199576968 (pbk.)
0199576963 (pbk.)
9786613296887
6613296880 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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