The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Volume II (Esprios Classics)

The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Volume II (Esprios Classics)
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-08-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781006640872

Charlotte Brontë (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels became classics of English literature. In 1839 she undertook the role as governess for the Sidgwick family but left after a few months to return to Haworth where the sisters opened a school, but failed to attract pupils. Instead, they turned to writing and they each first published in 1846 under the pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Although her first novel, The Professor, was rejected by publishers, her second novel, Jane Eyre, was published in 1847. The sisters admitted to their Bell pseudonyms in 1848, and by the following year were celebrated in London literary circles.

George Borrow and His Circle (Esprios Classics)

George Borrow and His Circle (Esprios Classics)
Author: Clement King Shorter
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2018-03-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 138770124X

I have to express my indebtedness first of all to the executors of Henrietta MacOubrey, George Borrow's stepdaughter, who kindly placed Borrow's letters and manuscripts at my disposal. To the survivor of these executors, a lady who resides in an English provincial town, I would particularly wish to render fullest acknowledgment did she not desire to escape all publicity and forbid me to give her name in print. I am indebted to Sir William Robertson Nicoll without whose kindly and active intervention I should never have taken active steps to obtain the material to which this biography owes its principal value.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Author: Elizabeth Gaskell
Publisher: Hero Classics
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781800313248

As far as she could see, her life was ordained to be lonely, and she must subdue her nature to her life, and, if possible, bring the two into harmony. When she could employ herself in fiction, all was comparatively well. The characters were her companions in the quiet hours, which she spent utterly alone, unable often to stir out of doors for many days together.

Matthew Arnold (Esprios Classics)

Matthew Arnold (Esprios Classics)
Author: George Saintsbury
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1794767525

"Mr. Matthew Arnold, like other good men of our times, disliked the idea of being made the subject of a regular biography; and the only official and authoritative sources of information as to the details of his life are the Letters published by his family, under the editorship of Mr. G. W.E. Russell (2 vols., London, 1895). To these, therefore, it seems to be a duty to confine oneself, as far as such details are concerned, save as regards a very few additional facts which are public property."

North and South, Vol. 1 (Esprios Classics)

North and South, Vol. 1 (Esprios Classics)
Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781034951377

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell née Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs. Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. She is perhaps best known for her biography of Charlotte Brontë. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and as such are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. She married William Gaskell, the minister at Cross Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester. They settled in Manchester, where the industrial surroundings would offer inspiration for her novels. Her first novel, Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life, was published anonymously in 1848. The best known of her remaining novels are Cranford (1853), North and South (1855), and Wives and Daughters (1866).