Girl with a Pen (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Agnes M. R. Dunlop
- First Published: 1964
- Time of Work: 1833–1848
- Setting: Yorkshire, London, and Brussels
- Principal Characters: Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë, Ellen Nussey, Reverend Patrick Brontë, Constantin Heger, George Smith
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Family or family life, Self-discovery, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Novelists, Sisters, Biography, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: London, England, Yorkshire, England, Brussels, Belgium
Form and Content
In Girl with a Pen: Charlotte Brontë, Elisabeth Kyle has restricted her story of Brontë’s life to the period between her seventeenth and thirty-first years. In so doing, she focuses on the time when Brontë was attempting to discover what her life’s work would be. Kyle demonstrates how, in her efforts to prepare for teaching, Brontë actually became a writer. The book is divided into three sections, each exploring one aspect of Brontë’s artistic development.
In part 1, “Charlotte at Home,” Kyle covers the years from 1833 to 1841 and...
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