Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life
by Lyndall Gordon
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 070116137X
- ISBN 13
- 9780701161378
- Seller
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ELY, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good/Very Good. 1994. Hard Cover. 8vo 070116137X Dust jacket price clipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Plates. 416 pages clean and tight. The standard view of Charlotte Bronte is of the reclusive genius, sacrificing herself for her ill-fated brother and sisters and her demanding father in the isolated gloom of the parsonage high on the Yorkshire moors. Lyndall Gordon brings her life out of the shadows and throws a new light on the novels, particularly "Jane Eyre" and "Villette". Behind the quiet, modest public figure stands a woman who is eccentric, romantic, satirical and far from tame. Lyndall Gordon tells the story of her life and shows how her rebellion as well as her passionate involvements with men (the charismatic Belgian teacher, Paul Heger, and her young London publisher, George Smith) and women lie behind her fiction. With access to letters and journals, she unearths new evidence about Charlotte's writing life, and about her last illness and her death. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144261
- Title
- Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life
- Author
- Lyndall Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 070116137X
- ISBN 13
- 9780701161378
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
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CHARLES BOSSOM
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About CHARLES BOSSOM
Charles Bossom has worked in the Book Trade since 1963, commencing at WH Smith Oxford and retiring in 1999 as Regional Manager Central England. The Charles Bossom bookselling business was started in early 2000. We offer a changing selection of old and out-of-print books in a wide range of subjects. We frequently add new items to our stock so visit us regularly.
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