Announcement of the second edition of EG
's The Life of Charlotte Brontë produced a threat from Lady Scott
's solicitors of a libel suit unless the publishers
withdrew all mention of their client and publicly apologized.
Uglow, Jennifer S. Elizabeth Gaskell: A Habit of Stories. Faber and Faber.
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It also featured an excerpt from Book V of Barrett Browning
's recent kunstlerroman Aurora Leigh on the dreariness of women writers who sit by solitary fires / And hear the nations praising them far...
