The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Volume I (Esprios Classics)
The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Volume I (Esprios Classics)

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-09

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781006640896

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Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Although her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.

George Borrow and His Circle (Esprios Classics)
George Borrow and His Circle (Esprios Classics)

Author: Clement King Shorter

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-03-28

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 138770124X

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I have to express my indebtedness first of all to the executors of Henrietta MacOubrey, George Borrow's stepdaughter, who kindly placed Borrow's letters and manuscripts at my disposal. To the survivor of these executors, a lady who resides in an English provincial town, I would particularly wish to render fullest acknowledgment did she not desire to escape all publicity and forbid me to give her name in print. I am indebted to Sir William Robertson Nicoll without whose kindly and active intervention I should never have taken active steps to obtain the material to which this biography owes its principal value.

The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Volume II (Esprios Classics)
The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Volume II (Esprios Classics)

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-09

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781006640872

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Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Although her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 2 (Esprios Classics)
The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 2 (Esprios Classics)

Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Publisher: Blurb

Published: 2020-02-07

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 9781714391233

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The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The first edition was published in 1857. 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".

Matthew Arnold (Esprios Classics)
Matthew Arnold (Esprios Classics)

Author: George Saintsbury

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-11-25

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 1794767525

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"Mr. Matthew Arnold, like other good men of our times, disliked the idea of being made the subject of a regular biography; and the only official and authoritative sources of information as to the details of his life are the Letters published by his family, under the editorship of Mr. G. W.E. Russell (2 vols., London, 1895). To these, therefore, it seems to be a duty to confine oneself, as far as such details are concerned, save as regards a very few additional facts which are public property."