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The Letters of Charlotte Bronte - Volume III: 1852 - 1855 (Hardcover, New)
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The Letters of Charlotte Bronte - Volume III: 1852 - 1855 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Letters of Charlotte Bronte
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This final volume of Charlotte Bronte's letters covers the period
from 1852, when she eventually completed Villette, to March 1855,
when she died at the early age of 38. Published in January 1853,
Villette reflects experiences and moods conveyed with sharp
immediacy in the correspondence of the preceding years. In December
1852 one of her most dramatic letters described the crucial event
in her private life: Arthur Nicholls's proposal of marriage, when,
'shaking from head to foot' he made her feel 'what it costs a man
to declare affection where he doubts response.' Mr Bronte's furious
opposition to the match was not overcome until 1854, the year of
Charlotte's marriage on 29 June. In the all too few months before
her death, she came to love and trust Nicholls, her 'dear boy' and
her 'tenderest nurse' during her final illness. The letters in this
volume include on the one hand Charlotte's brief curt note to
George Smith on his engagement to Elizabeth Blakeway, and on the
other a newly discovered letter describing with cheerful briskness
Charlotte's purchase of her own wedding trousseau. Complete texts
of letters previously published inaccurately or in part provide
valuable insight into her other friendships. Those to Elizabeth
Gaskell in particular have an important bearing on our
interpretation and assessment of her Life of Charlotte, published
early in 1857; and the inclusion of Harriet Martineau's angry
comments on the Life ('Hallucination!' [Friendship] was never
attained.') enhances our understanding of Charlotte's break with
Martineau after her review of Villette. The redating of a letter
has shown that the long estrangement between Charlotte and her
oldest friend, Ellen Nussey, caused by Ellen's hostility to the
idea of Charlotte's marriage with Nicholls, lasted without a break
from July 1853 until late February 1854. The volume includes some
of the touching notes from Charlotte's bereaved husband and father,
written in response to condolences on her death. Mrs Gaskell's
graphic account of her visit to Haworth in 1853 forms one of the
appendices; others provide the texts of fragmentary letters,
identify known forgeries, and list addenda and corrigenda for
volumes 1 and 2.
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