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Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle

Clement King Shorter

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  • Book language: English
  • 593 pages

A late nineteenth-century literary biography, Clement King Shorter’s Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle gathers letters and recollections to portray the novelist and the family, friends, and correspondents around her. It offers a detailed, documentary view of Brontë’s life and Victorian literary society, valuable to readers who enjoy biography and literary history.

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Contents

  1. CHARLOTTE BRONTË AND HER CIRCLE
  2. PREFACE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. A BRONTË CHRONOLOGY
  6. PRELIMINARY: MRS. GASKELL
  7. CHAPTER I: PATRICK BRONTË AND MARIA HIS WIFE
  8. CHAPTER II: CHILDHOOD
  9. CHAPTER III: SCHOOL AND GOVERNESS LIFE
  10. CHAPTER IV: THE PENSIONNAT HÉGER, BRUSSELS
  11. CHAPTER V: PATRICK BRANWELL BRONTË
  12. CHAPTER VI: EMILY JANE BRONTË
  13. CHAPTER VII: ANNE BRONTË
  14. CHAPTER VIII: ELLEN NUSSEY
  15. CHAPTER IX: MARY TAYLOR
  16. CHAPTER X: MARGARET WOOLER
  17. CHAPTER XI: THE CURATES AT HAWORTH
  18. CHAPTER XII: CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S LOVERS
  19. CHAPTER XIII: LITERARY AMBITIONS
  20. CHAPTER XIV: WILLIAM SMITH WILLIAMS
  21. CHAPTER XV: WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY
  22. CHAPTER XVI: LITERARY FRIENDSHIPS
  23. CHAPTER XVII: THE REV. ARTHUR BELL NICHOLLS
  24. FOOTNOTES
  25. INDEX
  26. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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