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    <body><![CDATA[Note that which edition of this you get matters substantially.  This book was written while some of the people within were still alive, and there were several lawsuits and threatened lawsuits that forced Mrs Gaskell to do substantial rewrites.<br/><br/>The edition I have has both the original and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52142866">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this deep and sloggy water to tread through.  For someone who knew Charlotte Bronte, I was astonished at the heavy hand with which Gaskell  appeared to be writing.  It was as if her need to see Charlotte well treated robbed Elizabeth Gaskell of all her lightness and verve (as seen in Cranfor...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75213989">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an interesting biography of Bronte written by one of her contemporaries, even another female author of the time (E. Gaskell of &quot;North and South&quot; etc.).  Charlotte came across as very humble and probably listened too well to what the critics said about her work.  It appears that her...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67108308">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Many of the reviews I read of this book fault it for skimming over some details of Charlotte's life.  In particular, reviewers felt that the book only focused on the good and didn't bring out any of the &quot;dark secrets&quot; from her life.  Personally, I think it's better for this.<br/><br/>Eli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62118132">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[3.5 stars.  I had high expectations with Gaskell as the biographer, but somehow she managed to put a boring spin on everything--the first third of the book was especially bad. But the information in the middle to end of the book and the frequent excerpts from Charlotte's letters made it well worth r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57620508">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA['It is in every way worthy of what one great woman should have written of another.'  Patrick Bronte  Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) is a pioneering biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another.  Gaskell was a friend of Charlotte Bronte, and, having been invited to write the offical life, determined both to tell the truth and to honour her friend.  She contacted those who had known Charlotte and travelled extensively in England and Belgium to gather material.  She wrote from a vivid accumulation of letters, interviews, and observation, establishing the details of Charlotte's life and recreating her background.  Through an often difficult and demanding process, Gaskell created a vital sense of a life hidden from the world.  This edition is based on the Third Edition of 1857, revised by Gaskell.  It has been collated with the manuscript, and the previous two editions, as well as with Charlotte Bront'e's letters, and thus offers fuller information about the process of composition than any previous edition.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is one that will resonate with a very specific type of reader.  It is necessary to have read her works, including the juvenilia, to understand many of the references.  You have to be deeply interested in Brontë's life to tackle it.  Not a few Goodreaders have been put off by the lengthy d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34941954">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In 1855 Charlotte Brontë, pregnant and married less than a year, fell ill and died of tuberculosis&#8212;the same disease that had killed her sisters and brother. Two years after Charlotte&#8217;s death, her friend <strong>Elizabeth Gaskell</strong>, herself a well-known novelist, completed work on <em>The Life of Charlotte Brontë,</em> a biography that was met with immediate acclaim by readers curious to discover more about the enigmatic author of <em>Jane Eyre.</em><br/><br/>Both a work of art and a well-documented interpretation of its subject, Gaskell&#8217;s biography is an extraordinarily vivid and sensitive account of Brontë&#8217;s outer and inner lives: her shyness and strangeness; her intense appreciation of the Bible, poetry, music, and the theater; her love of her family; and her fears of loneliness. Meant to be a defense and vindication of &#8220;a noble, true, and tender woman,&#8221; the book paints Brontë as an unforgettable figure careening between depression and exaltation. It also portrays her suffering. In her personal life, Brontë knew deprivation and loss, while in her artistic life, despite her fame, she had been taunted as coarse and had none of the advantages that a man might take for granted.<br/><br/>A powerful tribute from one writer to another, <em>The Life of Charlotte Brontë</em> remains one of the most evocative and perceptive biographies ever written.<br/><br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh, pooh, no picture of the cover! Anyway...I'm just starting this one. I advise future readers not to skip the introduction. It would be like missing the most delicious appetizer before a sumptuous meal! I can hardly wait to really dig into this! :-)<br/><br/>I've been slack about recording the b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4269341">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[This book features an introduction by Peter Merchant, Department of English and Language Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University. In devoting two years of her own life to &quot;The Life of Charlotte Bronte&quot;, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote what with good reason has been held up as 'the first successful biography of a woman by a woman'. Charlotte Bronte (1816-55) was her 'dear friend', and a writer by whom she felt anticipated, echoed, complemented, and inspired.&quot;The Life of Charlotte Bronte&quot; begins as an act of friendship but becomes a great work of literature in its own right. According to G. H. Lewes, 'fiction has nothing more wild, touching, and heart-strengthening to place above it'. As Lewes saw, the tale that Gaskell tells is full of dramatic contrasts: Bronte's life of claustrophobic confinement in a Yorkshire parsonage belied by the heights of imagination to which she was able to soar in her writing; the 'extraordinary genius' that seemed to have touched her whole family set against the intense suffering that was also visited upon them. In the same year, 1857, Gaskell produced two different versions of the &quot;Life&quot;.  This edition reprints the earlier, and more hard-hitting, of the two.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was very touching and quite well-written, in the style of Charlotte herself, which isn't surprising knowing now (after reading the book and so many of Charlotte's letters) how similar Charlotte and the author were in all opinions and thoughts. The book is comprised of narration by Elizabet...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61827263">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Since I only made it through the first half, I guess I'm not as interested in the life of Charlotte Bronte as I thought I was. To be fair, I had to remember that this was a Victorian biography--full of tedious descriptions of Yorkshire landscape and long excerpts from Charlotte's correspondence--and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56851593">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[In 1855 Charlotte Brontë, pregnant and married less than a year, fell ill and died of tuberculosis&#8212;the same disease that had killed her sisters and brother. Two years after Charlotte&#8217;s death, her friend <strong>Elizabeth Gaskell</strong>, herself a well-known novelist, completed work on <em>The Life of Charlotte Brontë,</em> a biography that was met with immediate acclaim by readers curious to discover more about the enigmatic author of <em>Jane Eyre.</em><br/><br/>Both a work of art and a well-documented interpretation of its subject, Gaskell&#8217;s biography is an extraordinarily vivid and sensitive account of Brontë&#8217;s outer and inner lives: her shyness and strangeness; her intense appreciation of the Bible, poetry, music, and the theater; her love of her family; and her fears of loneliness. Meant to be a defense and vindication of &#8220;a noble, true, and tender woman,&#8221; the book paints Brontë as an unforgettable figure careening between depression and exaltation. It also portrays her suffering. In her personal life, Brontë knew deprivation and loss, while in her artistic life, despite her fame, she had been taunted as coarse and had none of the advantages that a man might take for granted.<br/><br/>A powerful tribute from one writer to another, <em>The Life of Charlotte Brontë</em> remains one of the most evocative and perceptive biographies ever written.<br/><br/>&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A great read but probably for real Brontë lovers only.  At the time of the writing, mere months after Charlotte's death, there was a dearth of materials from which to reassemble the lives of this family.  Therefore, Gaskell spends a lot of time setting the scene for the reader.  Page after page is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68829312">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The foundation of the lasting Bronte myth by a woman at odds with her own sense of authorship and femininity.  As others have mentioned, the edition is key.  After the first edition, numerous edits and additions were made to please a number of players (Bronte's father, husband, and Harriet Martineau...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75096438">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The first time I picked this up, I struggled with it. Then I went to Haworth and saw the Brontes house, walked the moors, drank in their drunken brother's favorite bar, etc. THEN I could go back, manage the weighty aged diction and let the story take me away. Seriously, the real life story of the Br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32544803">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for the first time, in the summer, in the backyard, in the hammock.   I remember reading about all the gray english terrible drama and swinging lazily back and forth in the warm breeze.  I really love this book. It's got whole chapters of bore bore bore, but glorious moments of intrigue ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42484579">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love charlotte bronte so anything I can read about her life interests me. charlotte's father asked elizabeth to write this biography after his daughter's death. however the intro alludes that many things that may have been controversial were barely mentioned. Still really enjoying]]></body>
    
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