Selected Letters

Dangerous as lucifer matches.

That was how Arthur Nicholls, Charlotte Brontës 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 Smiths fine
edition includes invaluable notes on Brontës correspondents, and Janet Gezari contributes a new introduction that relates the letters to both Brontës life and her creative accomplishment.

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