Charlotte Brontë
A Passionate Life
$34.14
- Paperback
480 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2008
Summary
In this groundbreaking and unconventional biography, Lyndall Gordon dismantles the insistent image of Charlotte Bronte as a modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, revealing instead a strong and fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art.
‘Sensitive, open-minded, vivid, full of psychological insight, [Gordon’s] book is a brilliant reappraisal of Charlotte Bronte’s life, work, and the flow between the two… It is also a deeply moving st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844084722 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844084728 |
| Author: | Lyndall Gordon |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 480 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 384g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 130mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
An exemplary biography: brisk but attentive to all nuance; lucid and open in its judgements; wearing its learning lightly but visibly - Jan Marsh, New Statesman
Brilliant and powerful…[Gordon] brings us the closest we are ever likely to get to an understanding of the source of Charlotte Bronte’s creative genius…Bronte biography has, at last, come of age - Mark Bostridge, TESLyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon is the prizewinning author of biographies including CHARLOTTE BRONTE, VIRGINIA WOOLF, SHARED LIVES and MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT. Born and raised in South Africa, Lyndall is a fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
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