The Life of Charlotte Brontë
10 best books like The Life of Charlotte Brontë (Elizabeth Gaskell): Jane Austen: A Life, Virginia Woolf, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York, The Brontës: A Life in Letters, Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, A Memoir of Jane Austen and Other Family Recollections
| Author | Carol Shields |
| ISBN | 0143035169 |
With the same sensitivity and artfulness that are the trademarks of her award-winning novels, Carol Shields explores the life of a writer whose own novels have engaged and delighted readers for the past two hundred years. In Jane Austen, Shields follows this superb and beloved novelist from her early...
| Author | Hermione Lee |
| ISBN | 0375701362 |
While Virginia Woolf--one of our century's most brilliant and mercurial writers--has had no shortage of biographers, none has seemed as naturally suited to the task as Hermione Lee. Subscribing to Virginia Woolf's own belief in the fluidity and elusiveness of identity, Lee comes at her subject from...
| Author | Stephen Crane |
| ISBN | 0140437975 |
"A powerful, severe, and harshly comic portrayal of Irish immigrant life in lower New York exactly a century ago."—Alfred Kazin.
Although fellow novelists William Dean Howells and Hamlin Garland immediately recognized genius in the twenty-one-year-old author of Maggie: A Girl of the Streets,...
| Author | Juliet Barker |
| ISBN | 0879518383 |
Barker's selection of letters reveals the authentic voices of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, as well as their brother, Branwell, and father, Reverend Patrick Bronte. Charlotte was a letter-writer of supreme ability, ranging from facetious notes and intimate gossip to artfully composed pages of literary...
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
| ISBN | 0099437090 |
Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.
Here, Ackroyd attempts to peel away the mask of a man whose life was outwardly a picture of Victorian rectitude, but whose...
| Author | Claire Tomalin |
| ISBN | 1594201188 |
The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of...
Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
| Author | Jane Dunn |
| ISBN | 1860498515 |
3.5 stars rounded up
This is a very interesting book about Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf; it isn’t a joint biography. Dunn is looking at their relationship with and influence on each other over the years the rivalry and competitiveness as well as love and support. The relationship was certainly...
| Author | Kate Chopin |
| ISBN | 1593080018 |
When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel’s frank portrayal of a woman’s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author’s reputation and career. Many years passed...
| Author | Edith Wharton |
| ISBN | 1593080905 |
One of Edith Wharton’s few works of fiction that takes place outside of an urban, upper-class setting, Ethan Frome draws upon the bleak, barren landscape of rural New England. A poor farmer, Ethan finds himself stuck in a miserable marriage to Zeenie, a sickly, tyrannical woman, until he falls in...
| Author | J.E. Austen Leigh |
| ISBN | 0192840746 |
James Edward Austen-Leigh's Memoir of his aunt Jane Austen was published in 1870, over fifty years after her death. Together with the shorter recollections of James Edward's two sisters, Anna Lefroy and Caroline Austen, the Memoir remains the prime authority for her life and continues to inform all...
| Author | Madeleine B. Stern |
| ISBN | 1555534171 |
Louisa May Alcott really was an amazing woman. I knew her only from the four books about the March family (given that a fair majority of South African books are obtained from British publishers/printers we have Good Wives, rather than two parts of Little Women). I knew that she'd written some other books,...
| Author | Charlotte Brontë |
| ISBN | 0140435093 |
In 1834, Charlotte Bronte, together with her brother Branwell, created the imaginary kingdom of Angria, about which she was to write prolifically for the next five years. The five “novelettes” in this volume are the last of her Angrian tales. Written from the viewpoint of the cynical, gossipy...
| Author | Jenny Uglow |
| ISBN | 0374147515 |
Winner of the Portico Prize
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography of the Year High-spirited, witty and passionate, Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some of the most enduring novels of the Victorian age, including Mary Barton, North and South and Wives and Daughters. This biography traces Elizabeth's...
| Author | Park Honan |
| ISBN | 1904435815 |
Drawing on diaries, memoirs, and letters written by members of the Austen family,this sympathetic and probing biography enters the private world of Jane Austen, revealing experiences and observations she drew upon to write such masterpieces as Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice,...
| Author | Lucasta Miller |
| ISBN | 1400078350 |
Following the Brontë sisters through their many reincarnations at the hands of biographers, Lucasta Miller reveals as much about the impossible art of biography as she does about the Brontës themselves. Their first biographer, Mrs Gaskell, transformed their story of literary ambition into one...
| Author | Miranda Seymour |
| ISBN | 0802117023 |
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Mary Shelley has been called "a harrowing life, wonderfully retold" (The Washington Post). This "splendid biography" (The New Yorker) gracefully moves through the dramatic life of the woman behind history's most legendary...
| Author | Lyndall Gordon |
| ISBN | 0393314480 |
This critically acclaimed portrait of Charlotte Brontë looks beyond the insistent image of the modest Victorian lady, the slave to duty in the shadow of tombstones, to reveal a strong, fiery woman who shaped her own life and transformed it into art. Drawing on Brontë's unpublished letters, journals,...
| Author | Irene Howat |
| ISBN | 1857926498 |
Gladys Aylward ~ Mary Slessor ~ Isobel Kuhn ~ Elizabeth Fry ~ Jackie Pullinger ~ Amy Carmichael ~ Joni Eareckson Tada ~ Catherine Booth ~ Corrie Ten Boom ~ Evelyn Brand
Would you like to change your world?
These ten girls did! Read this book and find out how Corrie saved lives and loved...
| Author | Daphne du Maurier |
| ISBN | 0316253650 |
"Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency which gives such animation to her storytelling." -New York Times Book Review
Pursued by the twin demons of drink and madness, Branwell Bronte created a private world that was indeed infernal. As a bold and gifted...
"In this collection of their poetry, published under gender-concealing pseudonyms, we get an intimate glimpse of their fears, hopes, faith, and desires." — Haunted Library
"This collection is not only for fans of the Brontë Sisters and classic rhyming poetry but also for readers that crave...
| Author | Jane Austen |
| ISBN | 0140432671 |
Their most striking similarity was that both produced a considerable body of juvenilia. For both authors this was a period in which to experiment and to develop character and style. Their work moved in very different directions: in her first short burlesques, Jane Austen exhibits a merciless wit as...
The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë and Her Family
| Author | Rebecca Fraser |
| ISBN | 0449904652 |
On second reading, I still think this is quite a good biography of Charlotte and give it four stars on that account. However, I would argue with the title, because it really is a biography of only Charlotte; Fraser doesn't pay much attention to the other Brontes except as they affect Charlotte, and she...
