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GASKELL, E.C.

The Life of Charlotte Brontë,

The Life of Charlotte Brontë,

author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," "Villette," &c.

Stock Code 111827

London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1857

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Elizabeth Gaskell (1810 - 1865), was the first biographer of her friend, Charlotte Brontë who died in 1855 and whose biography Charlotte's father, Patrick Brontë, urged her to write. It is written with warm-hearted admiration and sensitivity.

First edition; 2 vols, 8vo (205 x 135 mm); frontispiece portrait of Bronte to vol. I, engraved frontispiece of Haworth Church and Parsonage to vol. II, 16 pages of advertisements to rear of vol. II, as called for, some very minor spotting or mottling to a few initial and terminal leaves, as well as some affecting extreme edges of pp 75 - 81, otherwise very good; publisher's brown cloth, blind-embossed panelled boards, gilt lettering to the rounded spines, corners lightly bumped, rubbed at extremities, more to spine ends, professional restoration spine tail of vol. I and spine head of vol. II, inner hinges partially or fully split but holding, in all a very good set.

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