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The Life of Charlotte Brontë
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Life of C Brontë - Section 4
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Later years, relationship with other writers, marriage, death
Section 4
Here are a few broad introductory questions to get things going. Feel free to comment on anything at all that struck you from this section and the biography as a whole.
The biography is largely epistolary, with Gaskell using letters between Charlotte, her family, friends, publishers and others to provide the narrative of her life. How does this format work for you? Do you think it makes the biography more reliable/insightful/realistic? Or….?
Which of the people in Charlotte’s life stood out the most for you and how deeply do you think they influenced her life? Her family members? Tabby? Her friends such as Miss Wooler? Literary personalities and publishers? Her husband?
Has the biography in general changed your understanding of Charlotte’s work? Has it encouraged you to read more of it?