As interest in 19th-century English literature by women has been
reinvigorated by a resurgence in popularity of the works of Jane
Austen, readers are rediscovering a writer whose fiction, once
widely beloved, fell by the wayside. British novelist ELIZABETH
CLEGHORN GASKELL (1810-1865)-whose books were sometimes initially
credited to, simply, "Mrs. Gaskell"-is now recognized as having
created some of the most complex and progressive depictions of
women in the literature of the age. Gaskell's one work of
nonfiction is this 1857 biography of her close friend, novelist
Charlotte Bront. At once a triumph of the biographical form and a
charming celebration of the writer by someone who knew her well,
this has been hailed as a remarkably insightful and highly readable
life of Bront, one that makes up for its lack of objectivity with
its warmth, admiration, and respect. It offers a significant view
of one woman writer's perspective on another's work at a time when
women writers were afforded little respect at all.
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