gaskell life of charlotte bronte

She later wrote shirley 1849 and villette 1853.

Gaskell life of charlotte bronte. Charlotte bronte was a famous english novelist and poet who left behind a rich legacy of written work which includes classical novels like jane eyre shirley and villette. The novel gave new truthfulness to victorian fiction. Charlotte brontë ˈ ʃ ɑːr l ə t ˈ b r ɒ n t i commonly t eɪ. She enlisted in school at roe head in january 1831 aged 14 years.

Humphry ward and c. In thrilling and descriptive text bronte clearly describes jane eyre s tragic journey. Growing up she has a sad life from the death of her parents to her abusive cousin. 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.

A flowing story in which the characters come to life. She was the eldest among the bronte sisters charlotte emily and anne all of whom were writers and poets of the highest standards. The shakespeare head bront. The life and works of charlotte brontë and her sisters haworth edition 7 volumes edited by mrs.

She was the third of six children of patrick brontë an irish crofter s son who rose via a cambridge education to become in 1820 a perpetual curate at haworth in yorkshire. With vibrant and strong language charlotte bronte takes us on a magical journey through which we see jane eyre s life. Elizabeth cleghorn gaskell english novelist short story writer and first biographer of charlotte brontë. In her 1857 biography the life of charlotte brontë mrs gaskell begins with two explanatory and descriptive chapters.

Ward a 19th century british novelist and literary critic. The following introduction to and analysis of jane eyre by charlotte brontë is excerpted from life and works of the sisters brontë 1899 by mary a. When her mother died she was brought up by a maternal aunt in the cheshire village of knutsford in a kindly atmosphere of rural gentility that was. The novel was unusual for its time as an exploration of the.

She was a daughter of a unitarian minister. Learn more about bronte s life and work. She left the year after to teach her sisters emily and. The first one covers the wild countryside of the west riding of yorkshire the little village of haworth the parsonage and the church surrounded by its vast cemetery perched on the top of a hill.

Though much has been written about jane eyre charlotte s 1847 classic the excerpt following abbreviated from ward s 1899 book about the brontës is a critical yet insightful.