Charlotte Brontë

Immediately after the death of her friend Charlotte Brontë on 31 March 1855, EG began gathering details of her life and death, and planning to write a book to make people honour the woman as...

The quality of EG 's fiction was recognised early by her contemporaries. George Eliot exempted her, along with Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Brontë , from the ranks of Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, noting...

The first critical edition of EG 's works, in 10 volumes, appeared in 2005 and 2006 edited by a distinguished team of scholars headed by Joanne Shattock . It includes previously unpublished materials including some...

EG , wearied from a long year spent writing her biography of Charlotte Brontë , arrived in Rome for a holiday; she returned there several times in the next few years.

EG received a letter from Patrick Brontë asking her to write his daughter Charlotte 's biography.

While researching her biography of Charlotte Brontë , EG was warned by Henry Chorley that unpublished letters were protected by copyright, and that she should seek permission from the executors.

EG published (using her own name for the first time) her influential and exhaustively researched The Life of Charlotte Brontë; initial reviews were positive, but the possibility of a libel suit brewed.

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.

Amidst scandal, and after months of revisions, EG published her third edition of The Life of Charlotte Brontë.

Elizabeth Gaskell , one of the foremost fiction-writers of the mid-Victorian period, produced a corpus of seven novels, numerous short stories, and a controversial biography of Charlotte Brontë . She wrote extensively for periodicals, as...

In August 1850, Charlotte Brontë and EG finally met at Gawthorpe Hall, near Burnley, home of Sir James Philips Kay-Shuttleworth . They had first corresponded a year previously, when Charlotte sent Elizabeth the manuscript...

Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...

This is a book about Inge's loves: her lost, buried love for her parents, her all-consuming love for her brother (to whom she feels deeply, inherently inferior), her love for baby Georgie (who, after they...

SG 's characters are amusing caricatures of socialites, intellectuals, and rustics. Flora's city friend, the modern young widow Mrs Smiling, for instance, has a large collection of suitors and an even larger collection of brassières...

Years before, Rumer had hoped they might be the new Brontësisters .They felt they knew India better than most adult Anglo-Indians.