Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

This is the second and final volume of Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell’s 1957 biography of Charlotte “Brontë, Charlotte Brontë - A Monograph”. The first biography of this seminal ...

Gaskell's successful biography helped to establish the Brontës' public image as a family characterised by literary genius and personal tragedy.

First biography of Charlotte Bronte published in 1857, two years after Charlotte's death on March 31, 1855. The novelist Elizabeth Gaskell had access to a great number of ...

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic ...