Charlotte Brontë (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Lyndall Gordon
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1816-1861
- Setting: West Yorkshire, Brussels, London
- Principal Characters: Charlotte Brontë, The Reverend Patrick Brontë, Maria Branwell Brontë, Patrick Branwell Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, George Smith, Elizabeth Gaskell
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Art or artists, Novelists, Sisters, Creative process, Reading, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: London, England, Yorkshire, England, Brussels, Belgium
The strength of Lyndall Gordon’s Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life is the work’s versatility. Not only does this book accomplish several different aims as a biography, but it is both academically acute and narratively well built. At times it reads like a strong work of criticism, and in other moments a reader is likely to be consumed as if he or she were engrossed in an entertaining bildungsroman. Gordon profits from the fascinating subject matter to which she has applied her considerable talents; the life of Charlotte Brontë seems calculated to enthrall.
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