The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Elizabeth Gaskell

544 pages first pub 1857 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography classics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Brontë was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains the most significant study of the enigmatic author who gave Jane Eyre the subtitle An Autobiography. It recounts Cha...

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informative 92%
reflective 69%
challenging 23%
emotional 23%
sad 23%
inspiring 15%
dark 7%
funny 7%
relaxing 7%

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medium 16%

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