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Miss Miles: Or, a Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago
Mary Taylor
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Description for Miss Miles: Or, a Tale of Yorkshire Life 60 Years Ago
Paperback. The only novel written by Charlotte Bronte's life-long friend, Mary Taylor, this is the story of the education and up-bringing of a group of young women, which emphasizes their friendship and their ability to maintain mental and economic well-being in straightened circumstances. Num Pages: 496 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 151 x 30. Weight in Grams: 678.
In Elizabeth Gaskell's seminal biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell makes extensive use of Charlotte's correspondence with her closest friend, known to readers of that work simply as `Dear M.' `M.' was later identified as Mary Taylor, whom Charlotte met as a teenager at boarding school (the school used as the model for `Lowood' in Jane Eyre) with whom she remained friends for life. It was Mary Taylor who inspired Charlotte to leave her oppressive parsonage home and go off to school in Brussels and, again, who came to her rescue when that adventure went sour and Charlotte was ... Read more
In Elizabeth Gaskell's seminal biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell makes extensive use of Charlotte's correspondence with her closest friend, known to readers of that work simply as `Dear M.' `M.' was later identified as Mary Taylor, whom Charlotte met as a teenager at boarding school (the school used as the model for `Lowood' in Jane Eyre) with whom she remained friends for life. It was Mary Taylor who inspired Charlotte to leave her oppressive parsonage home and go off to school in Brussels and, again, who came to her rescue when that adventure went sour and Charlotte was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195064926
SKU
V9780195064926
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Mary Taylor
Janet Horowitz Murray is a widely published Victorianist, as well as the founding director of the Laboratory for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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