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First edition. |
| Description |
416 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
Biographers have long examined the emotional life of Charlotte Brontë, as revealed in her novels (notably Villette) and correspondence. Here first-novelist Gael takes a fictive look at the last decade of the author?s life, during which Brontë sisters Anne, Charlotte, and Emily published poetry and novels as brothers Acton, Currer, and Ellis Bell, and Currer's Jane Eyre took the literary world by storm. But the emphasis here is on Charlotte's unrequited love, first for her French professor and later for her publisher, and the man whose love for her grows over the years. When curate Arthur Nicholls summons the courage to propose, Charlotte must overcome her father's objections to the match and decide between a marriage lacking the passion displayed in her novels or a single life. Gael sprinkles Charlotte's actual letters into this portrayal of the poverty and isolation of the Brontë family, and the tragedies that beset it, in language that seems true to the times. A moving view of a literary giant and the emotion that fueled her work--Booklist. |
| Subject |
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 -- Fiction.
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Brontë family -- Fiction.
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Authors -- Fiction.
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Women authors -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9780345520043 (acid-free paper) |
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0345520041 (acid-free paper) |
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