Charlotte Bronte by Rebecca Fraser
'If men could see us as we really are, they would be amazed', wrote Charlotte Brontë, the outwardly conventional parson's daughter who had rarely met any men beyond those of the church or classroom by the time Jane Eyre was published in 1847. From the landscape of the Yorkshire moors, an appalling childhood and a family decimated by consumption, Jane Eyre came as an instant literary sensation. It also brought Charlotte Brontë the notoriety that was to remain with her for the rest of her short and tragic life. Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte's first biographer, attempted to clear Charlotte of the charges of passionate immorality that were levelled at a woman author - and an unmarried one at that. Rebecca Fraser, 130 years later, placed Charlotte's life within the perceptual framework of contemporary attitudes to women. Her biography is an invaluable contribution to Brontë scholarship, which shares her admiration for a woman prepared to stand out against some of the cruellest Victorian ideas about her sex.
"Fraser excellently brings out the raging Charlotte" * Times Literary Supplement *
"The most enjoyable and readable biography of Charlotte Brontë since Mrs Gaskell's" * Literary Review *
"Rebecca Fraser has used her abundant material with a dexterity and sypathy that is beyond praise" -- Nigel Nicholson
"Worthy of its subject..[combines] a social historian's sense of place...[with] a novelist's imaginative feeling for detail" * New York Times *
"The most enjoyable and readable biography of Charlotte Brontë since Mrs Gaskell's" * Literary Review *
"Rebecca Fraser has used her abundant material with a dexterity and sypathy that is beyond praise" -- Nigel Nicholson
"Worthy of its subject..[combines] a social historian's sense of place...[with] a novelist's imaginative feeling for detail" * New York Times *
Rebecca Fraser is a writer and broadcaster whose work includes a biography of Charlotte Brontë which examines her life in the context of contemporary attitudes to women. President of the Brontë Society for many years, she wrote the introductions to the Everyman editions of Shirley and The Professor and is a contributor to the BBC History website. Her most recent book, A People’s History of Britain, is a highly readable account of British history. It has been described as `an elegantly written, impressively well-informed single-volume history of how England was governed during the past 2000 years.’
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099449683 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099449684 |
| Titel | Charlotte Bronte |
| Autor | Rebecca Fraser |
| Serie | Vintage Lives |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Vintage Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2003-11-06 |
| Seitenanzahl | 560 |
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