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Selected Letters
Charlotte Brontë
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Description for Selected Letters
paperback. Charlotte Bronte's letters are our most direct source of information about the Brontes and the life of the novelist. Vivid and passionate, they describe her inmost feelings as well as the world around her in Haworth, Belgium, and London. They offer insights into her novels and the development of her literary style. Editor(s): Smith, Margaret. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 236. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë'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 Brontës 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 Belgian schoolteacher, M. Heger. She endures the agony of the death of her siblings, and enjoys the success as a ... Read more
'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë'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 Brontës 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 Belgian schoolteacher, M. Heger. She endures the agony of the death of her siblings, and enjoys the success as a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press España, S.A.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199576968
SKU
KMK0021657
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Charlotte Brontë
Margaret Smith is Vice-President of the Brontë Society and editor of the complete three-volume edition of the Letters. She is co-author, with Christine Alexander, of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës. Janet Gezari is the author of Charlotte Brontë and Defensive Conduct: the Author and the Body at Risk (1992) and Last Things: Emily Brontë's Poems (OUP, 2007). ... Read more
Reviews for Selected Letters
To read these wonderful letters is to feel an almost spooky contact with their extraordinary author.
Val Hennesy, Dail Mail
A further dose of Bronte brilliance from Charlotte, whose lively letters are packed with astute observation.
Val Hennesy, Daily Mail
Val Hennesy, Dail Mail
A further dose of Bronte brilliance from Charlotte, whose lively letters are packed with astute observation.
Val Hennesy, Daily Mail