Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life

Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life

â€œ[The] contradictions in [BronteÂ¨â€™s] life are not only fully chronicled by Lyndall Gordonâ€™s splendid new biography, but also gracefully explicated to give the reader a vivid and emotionally detailed portrait of the novelist and her work. . . . [Gordon] chooses to use her imaginative sympathiesâ€•honed to precision with earlier biographies of Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliotâ€•to delineate her subjectâ€™s rich interior life.â€ â€•Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
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 BronteÂ¨ family, and also at significant peopleâ€•the active feminist Mary Taylor, the demanding mentor Constantin Heger, the rising publisher George Smithâ€•whom Charlotte strove to possess in life and fiction. Drawing on unpublished letters, the â€œRoe Head Journal,â€ early stories, the manuscript of Villette, and her last, unfinished novel, Lyndall Gordon explores the gaps in Charlotte BronteÂ¨â€™s life. How did she arrive at her understanding of passion from a womanâ€™s point of view? Could she resolve the testing conflict between a writerâ€™s 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.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Refer to Sapnet.
ReleaseDate 1996-05-17
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780393314489

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
ReleaseDate	1996-05-17
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780393314489

Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life

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