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The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Volume 1

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  2. Chapter 2 Part 1

    25:35

  3. Chapter 2 Part 2

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  4. Chapter 3

    38:53

  5. Chapter 4

    37:02

  6. Chapter 5

    31:45

  7. Chapter 6 Part 1

    26:09

  8. Chapter 6 Part 2

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  9. Chapter 7

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  10. Chapter 8 Part 1

    28:41

  11. Chapter 8 Part 2

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  12. Chapter 8 Part 3

    34:39

  13. Chapter 9

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  14. Chapter 10

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  15. Chapter 11 Part 1

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  16. Chapter 11 Part 2

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  17. Chapter 12 Part 1

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  18. Chapter 12 Part 2

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  19. Chapter 13

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  20. Chapter 14

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Grey stone houses, factory smoke and the moors around Haworth establish the setting for Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë. This first volume opens with a close account of the Yorkshire landscape and the parsonage, placing the writer within a community shaped by industry, church life and demanding weather. The attention to streets, buildings and household arrangements gives a concrete sense of the surroundings in which her family lived.

Letters bring Charlotte's own voice into the account. Writing to Southey, she describes her work as a governess and the difficulty of balancing teaching and sewing with her desire to read and write. His reply offers advice about keeping a quiet mind.

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was an English novelist and biographer whose fiction ranged across Victorian society from mill towns to country parishes. Remembered for Mary Barton, Cranford, and North and South, she wrote with sympathy for the poor and for women, and produced the first major life of her friend Charlotte Bronte.

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