Charlotte Bronte : A Passionate Life (rev. ed. 2008)
Author(s): Lyndall Gordon
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.
First published 1994; this revised edition 2008.
Product Information
* From the highly acclaimed author of Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft comes this extraordinary analysis of Charlotte Bronte
Author of the prizewinning biographies ELIOT'S EARLY YEARS, ELIOT'S NEW LIFE and VIRGINIA WOOLF: A WRITER'S LIFE. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, Lyndall received her doctorate from Columbia University and is a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.
General Fields
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- : Little, Brown Book Group
- : Virago Press Ltd
- : 01 September 2008
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Lyndall Gordon
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.8
- : 480
- : Section: 16, b/w pix
