CB
's publisher, the London firm of Smith, Elder, and Co.
, paid her £500 beyond their initial agreement of £100 for the hugely successful novel.
Gordon, Lyndall. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life. Chatto and Windus.
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Barker, Juliet. The Brontës. St Martin’s Press.
527
In 2003 a copy of the first...
Literary responses
Charlotte Brontë
Rigby also responded to the widespread speculation that Currer Bell was both a woman and a governess with the view that the book she deplores for an inexcusable coarseness of language and laxity of tone...
Publishing
Isa Blagden
Smith, Elder and Co.
of London released Agnes Tremorne in two volumes. It has been sugested that Anthony Trollope
helped get this first novel published, and that Robert Browning
may have similarly persuaded publishers to...