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10. "Immortal memories" by Shorter (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908);
Charlotte Bront� (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront� sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell.Early life and education:Charlotte Bront� was born in Thornton, west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1816, the third of the six children of Maria (n�e Branwell) and Patrick Bront� (formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty), an Irish Anglican clergyman. In 1820 her family moved a few miles to the village of Haworth, where her father had been appointed perpetual c...
The Life of Charlotte Bront� is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Bront� by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The first edition was published in 1857 by Smith, Elder & Co.. A major source was the hundreds of letters sent by Bront� to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey.Gaskell had to deal with some sensitive issues. She toned down some of her material: in the case of her description of the Clergy Daughters' School, attended by Charlotte and her sisters, this was to avoid legal action from the Rev. William Carus Wilson, the founder of the school. The published text does not go so far as to blame him for the deaths of two Bront� sisters, but even so the Carus Wilson family published ...
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This 1896 volume offers a glimpse of the lives of those close to Brontë, including her sisters, Emily and Anne.
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Reproduction of the original: George Borrow and His Circle by Clement King Shorter