The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: Volume II: 1848-1851

Charlotte Brontë author Margaret Smith editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

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In this volume we share Charlotte Brontë's experience for four crucial years. The success of Jane Eyre and the strange power of Wuthering Heights made the 'brothers Bell' the 'universal theme of conversation'; but privately the family endured the deaths of Branwell Brontë in September and Emily in December 1848, followed by Anne's in May 1849. Haunted by the fear that she also would succumb, Charlotte found salvation in writing Shirley, published in October 1849, and comfort in her friendship and correspondence with Ellen Nussey, with her publishers–especially George Smith–with Mrs Gaskell, and (for a time) Harriet Martineau. She may also have received a proposal of marriage from Smith, Edler's manager, James Taylor.

Fiercely clever, the prose angry and unforgettable, the letters assembled with dedication and profound scholarship, these volumes will provide decades of reward. They are revelatory. * Sunday Times *

ISBN: 9780198185987

Dimensions: 242mm x 164mm x 54mm

Weight: 1342g

844 pages