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The Letters of Charlotte Brontë: Volume II: 1848-1851

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In this volume we share Charlotte Brontë's experience for four crucial years. The success of Jane Eyre and the strange power of Wuthering Heights made the 'brothers Bell' the 'universal theme of conversation'; but privately the family endured the deaths of Branwell Brontë in September and Emily in December 1848, followed by Anne's in May 1849. Haunted by the fear that she also would succumb, Charlotte found salvation in writing Shirley, published in October 1849, and comfort in her friendship and correspondence with Ellen Nussey, with her publishers–especially George Smith–with Mrs Gaskell, and (for a time) Harriet Martineau. She may also have received a proposal of marriage from Smith, Edler's manager, James Taylor.

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ISBN: 9780198185987
Publication date: 6th April 2000
Author: Charlotte Brontë
Publisher: Clarendon Press an imprint of Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 844 pages
Series: Letters of Charlotte Brontë
Genres: Diaries, letters and journals
Biography: general
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900