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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452002903321

Autore

Brontèˆ Charlotte <1816-1855.>

Titolo

Selected letters of Charlotte Bront [[electronic resource] /] / Charlotte Brontèˆ; Margaret Smith, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-14888-1

9786611148881

0-19-152562-6

1-4356-0978-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SmithMargaret <1931->

Disciplina

823.8

Soggetti

Novelists, English - 18th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Letters; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations and Symbols; Introduction; A Chronology of Charlotte Brontèˆ; Biographical Notes; THE LETTERS; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An intimate insight into Charlotte Bront--euml--;'s life at Haworth Parsonage, her experiences in a Belgian school, and her passionate attraction to Constantin Heger, husband of the school's directress. We learn of the astonishing success of Jane Eyre, Charlotte's agony over the early death of her brother Branwell and of Emily and Anne, and her secret correspondence with and tragically brief happy marriage to Arthur Nicholls, cut short by her death in 1855. - ;These letters give an insight into the life of a writer whose novels continue to be bestsellers. They reveal much about Charlotte Bront