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Download or read book Selected Letters written by Charlotte Brontë and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-09-09 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Dangerous as lucifer matches.' That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë's husband for the last nine months of her life, described her letters. Full of acute observations, pithy character sketches, and passionate convictions, the letters are our most direct source of information about the lives of the Brontës and our closest approach to the author of Jane Eyre. In them Charlotte writes of life at Haworth Parsonage, her experiences at a Belgian school, and her intense feelings for the Belgian schoolteacher, M. Heger. She endures the agony of the death of her siblings, and enjoys the success as a writer that brings her into contact with the London literary scene. Vivid and intimate, her letters give fresh insight into the novels, and into the development of her distinct literary style. Margaret Smith's fine edition includes invaluable notes on Brontë's correspondents, and Janet Gezari contributes a new introduction that relates the letters to both Brontë's life and her creative accomplishment. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Download or read book Joseph Severn A Life written by Sue Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography of Joseph Severn, Keats's best-known but most controversial friend, who is buried next to him in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. Severn accompanied the dying poet to Italy and was virtually the only witness of his last days. Brown reassesses Severn's character and the nature of his friendship with Keats.

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Download or read book The Bront s Life and Letters written by Clement King Shorter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1908, this two-volume collection documents through correspondence the remarkable careers of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë.