The Life of Charlotte Brontë

The Life of Charlotte Brontë is the landmark 1857 biography written by Elizabeth Gaskell, a fellow Victorian novelist and a friend of the Brontë family. More than a simple “life story”, it traces Charlotte’s upbringing in Haworth, the harsh schooling that shaped the sisters, the family tragedies that followed, and the hard-won emergence of Jane Eyre and the other novels that transformed English literature. Gaskell writes with empathy and narrative drive, while also working as an early literary investigator: letters, testimonies and local history become evidence.

This Penguin Classics edition (1985) keeps the text accessible for today’s reader, balancing biography, social history and the moral pressures faced by a woman writer in the 19th century. You’ll also meet the world around Charlotte – class, religion, work, illness – and see how her imagination was forged in constraint as much as in ambition. It’s a page-turning biography and a key document of literary culture.

If you’re looking for a used copy in English that combines scholarship with storytelling, this is an excellent buy: ideal for readers of the Brontës, Victorian studies, biography lovers and anyone curious about how a classic author’s life intersects with the myths created after fame. Gaskell also writes with a clear purpose: to defend Charlotte’s reputation amid Victorian gossip and moral judgement.

• Encadernação: Capa mole
• Ano: 1985
• Páginas: 623
• ISBN: 0-14-043099-7