Author: GASKELL, MRS. (ELIZABETH CLEGHORN STEVENSON GASKELL)
Title: The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Description: London: Smith, Elder & Company, (1889). Reprint. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's green cloth over marbled boards, gilt lettering on black panel on spine. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Bronte with facsimile signature. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Mrs. Gaskell was a close friend of Charlotte Bronte, and was asked by Charlotte's father, Patrick Bronte, to write this biography of his daughter. Edges mildly worn, part of paper covering on front board torn away, frontispiece loose, else fine; unmarked, tight, and square. GOOD. Frontispiece. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 448 pp. Good with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Biography; Charlotte Bronte; Literary Biography; Mrs. Gaskell; Novels, Poetry & Literature Biography & Memoir Women
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Title: The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Description: London: Smith, Elder & Company, (1889). Reprint. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's green cloth over marbled boards, gilt lettering on black panel on spine. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait of Bronte with facsimile signature. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, née Stevenson (1810-1865), often referred to simply as Mrs Gaskell, was a British novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Mrs. Gaskell was a close friend of Charlotte Bronte, and was asked by Charlotte's father, Patrick Bronte, to write this biography of his daughter. Edges mildly worn, part of paper covering on front board torn away, frontispiece loose, else fine; unmarked, tight, and square. GOOD. Frontispiece. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 448 pp. Good with No dust jacket as issued .
Keywords: Biography; Charlotte Bronte; Literary Biography; Mrs. Gaskell; Novels, Poetry & Literature Biography & Memoir Women
Price: US$ 40.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 27287
- Book number: 27287
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