The life of Charlotte Bronte / [print]
Elizabeth Gaskell ; edited with an introduction by Angus Easson.
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2009.
- xxxvi, 587 pages ; 20 cm.
- Oxford world's classics .
- Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth.