Charlotte Brontë
A Passionate Life
$37.79
- 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: | 196mm x 130mm x 34mm |
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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, TESAbout The Author
Lyndall 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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