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The Life of Charlotte Brontﾽ FROM THE PUBLISHER
Intertwining fact and story, The Life of Charlotte Brontﾽ takes the reader by one hand and Charlotte Brontﾽ by the other to run rampant through the making of one of the greatest authoresses of all time. Follow Charlotte from her birthplace of Thornton as she sets off for school and later returns to teach her sisters, and come to know the ﾽcharacteristic kindness of the Brontﾽs.ﾽ This unsentimental biography, written by friend and sometimes critic Elizabeth Gaskell, helped launch Charlotte Brontﾽs fame and takes you on a journey to see the making of the author of Jane Eyre.
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Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on September 29, 1810. Her family lived in Chelsea (now Cheyne Walk.) After her mother died when Gaskell was still a toddler, her father, William, took her to North England to stay with an aunt. He remarried, and didnﾽt see her again until she was twelve years old, causing her to feel abandoned. At twenty, she married William Gaskell, a Unitarian minister like her father, and moved to 1 Dover Street, Manchester. She had four daughters, and worked as a pastorﾽs wife among the young girls who labored long hours in the cityﾽs cotton mills. A frequent traveler, the nature of her foreign correspondence reveals that she was a private person ﾽ she wanted the letters burned ﾽ who was more industrious and organized than passionate.
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