The Life of Charlotte Bronte

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The Life of Charlotte Bronte is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Brontë by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. However, though quite frank in places, Gaskell suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Constantin Heger (1809–1896), a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and as a possible source of distress to Charlotte's still-living friends, father and husband[1].

The first edition was published in 1857 by Smith, Elder & Co. A major source for the biography were the hundreds of letters sent by Bronte to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey.

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  1. ^ Margaret Lane (1953) The Bronte Story: a reconsideration of Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte. 178-183

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Works by Elizabeth Gaskell
Novels:
Mary Barton (1848) • Cranford (1851–3) • Ruth (1853) • North and South (1854–5) • Sylvia's Lovers (1863) • Wives and Daughters (1865)
Short story collections:
The Moorland Cottage (1850) • The Old Nurse's Story (1852) • Lizzie Leigh (1855) • My Lady Ludlow (1859) • Round the Sofa (1859) • Lois the Witch (1861) • A Dark Night's Work (1863)
Short stories (partial):
"Christmas Storms and Sunshine" (1848) • "Mr. Harrison's Confessions" (1851) • "The Squire's Story" (1853) • "Half a Life-time Ago" (1855) • "An Accursed Race" (1855) • "The Manchester Marriage" (1858) • "The Half-brothers" (1859) • "The Grey Woman" (1861) • "Cousin Phillis" (1864)
Non-fiction:
The Last Generation in England (1849) • The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857)
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