ISBN 9781915115553 Hardback £75.00
ISBN 9781915115560 eBook £34.99
229 x 152 mm. c.200 pp.
9 black and white illustrations.
Available March 2025
About this book
This unusual new book by the leading Brontë scholar examines key issues in literary and biographical history, as a specific and a general question with wide ramifications.
It examines a great deal of explicit and implicit evidence about Charlotte Brontë’s own management of the story of the family – what has become known as ‘The Brontë Myth’.
It carefully explores the story of the Brontës as transmitted by Elizabeth Gaskell, who was empowered to tell the story after Charlotte’s death. Edward Chitham shows how Charlotte slanted the story, and her strategy in doing so.
The work provides a major new focus for Charlotte’s life and work. It searches out motivations and attitudes, carefully considering the personalities and intentions of these writers of fiction and of fact.
About the author
Edward Chitham is a leading authority on the Brontës, and author of A Life of Anne Brontë; A Life of Emily Brontë; Brontë Facts and Problems, and The Birth of Wuthering Heights,
Reviews
Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell
How they constructed the Brontë story
Edward Chitham
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