The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Elizabeth Gaskell

587 pages first pub 1857 (editions)

nonfiction biography classics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the t...

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informative 92%
reflective 69%
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funny 7%
relaxing 7%

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medium 16%

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