Girl with a Pen: Charlotte Bronte

Girl with a Pen: Charlotte Bronte | Literary Qualities

Kyle's assessment of Girl with a Pen as fictionalized biography requires that the book be judged by the standards of both fiction and biography. Kyle's careful selection of significant events makes Charlotte Bronte's life even more interesting. The narrative includes only the people and incidents that directly influenced Charlotte's personal and literary choices. Thus, this account of Charlotte's literary success and her decision to marry Nicholls conveys the impression of inevitability that Edgar Allan Poe insisted was the hallmark of a good plot.

Kyle also possesses the...

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