Life of Charlotte Bronte

''It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.'' Patrick Brontë Elizabeth Gaskell''s The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Brontë, and, having been invited to write the offical life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend. She contac...