1905, ISBN: 5d7433663b6bf856e07d149b5f3ec581

[PU: Smith Elder & Co Ltd, London], CHARLOTTE BRONTE ILLUST BIOGRAPHY MRS GASKELL, This copy is generally bright, tight, white and square with no inscriptions or marginalia. There is some… More...

[PU: Smith Elder & Co Ltd, London], CHARLOTTE BRONTE ILLUST BIOGRAPHY MRS GASKELL, This copy is generally bright, tight, white and square with no inscriptions or marginalia. There is some mild wear to the extremities including slight bumping to the corners and tops and tails of the spines, minor rubbing and marks to the boards. Bound in green cloth with gilt titling to the spine and bright gilt interlocked C.B. device to the upper board. There are black endpapers and a tissue guarded frontis and other plates throughout. There are gilt top page edges. The Bronte sisters, Charlotte (April 21, 1816 March 31, 1855), Emily (July 30, 1818 December 19, 1848) and Anne (January 17, 1820 May 28, 1849), were English writers of the 1840s and 1850s. Their novels caused a sensation when they were first published and were subsequently accepted into the canon of great English literature. The sisters grew up in Haworth, near Keighley in West Yorkshire (the region has come to be known as Bronte Country), surviving their mother and two elder sisters into adulthood. Charlotte and Emily had written compulsively from early childhood and were first published, at their own expense, in 1846 as poets under the pseudonyms Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. The book attracted little attention, selling only two copies. The sisters returned to prose, producing a novel each in the following year. Charlotte's Jane Eyre, Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's Agnes Grey were released in 1847. The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The first edition was published in 1857 by Smith, Elder & Co. A major source was the hundreds of letters sent by Brontë to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey. Gaskell had to deal with rather sensitive issues, toning down some of her material: in the case of her description of the Clergy Daughters' School, attended by Charlotte and her sisters, this was to avoid legal action from the Rev. William Carus Wilson, the founder of the school. The published text does not go so far as to blame him for the deaths of two Brontë sisters, but even so the Carus Wilson family published a rebuttal with the title "A refutation of the statements in 'The life of Charlotte Bronte,' regarding the Casterton Clergy Daughters' School, when at Cowan Bridge". Although quite frank in many places, Gaskell suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Constantin Héger, a married man, on the grounds that it would be too great an affront to contemporary morals and a possible source of distress to Charlotte's still-living friends, father Patrick Brontë and husband. She also suppressed any reference to Charlotte's romance with George Smith, her publisher, who was also publishing the biography. Ref NNN 4, Books<

1859, ISBN: 5d7433663b6bf856e07d149b5f3ec581

The Life of Charlotte Bronte Vol. 1 only by E. C. Gaskell. Leipzig, Germany Published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1857. Tauchnitz Edition. This is an extremely RARE edition, I can find no oth… More...

The Life of Charlotte Bronte Vol. 1 only by E. C. Gaskell. Leipzig, Germany Published by Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1857. Tauchnitz Edition. This is an extremely RARE edition, I can find no others available. Among the challenges Charlotte encountered was the prejudices regarding women and authors so Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called "feminine".Description:Black calf leather spine with 5 bands, gilt lettering and lines; marble boards, marble end papers. Warm ivory toned pages are clean, unmarked. There is an old damp stain, half moon shaped at the bottom edge of this book (see photo of open book). Strong, tight spine; green satin page marker. No dust jacket as issued. Overall condition is good +., Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1859, 0<