Of the republic of uzbekistan samarkand state institute of foreign languages the faculty of english language

The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Portrait by J. H. Thompson at the Brontë Parsonage

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Elizabeth Gaskell‘s biography.It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analyzing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Bronte’s life, emphasizing those aspects that countered the accusations of "coarseness" that had been levelled at her writing. The biography is frank in places, but omits details of Brontë's love for Héger, a married man, as being too much of an affront to contemporary morals and a likely source of distress to Brontë's father, widower, and friends.Mrs Gaskell also provided doubtful and inaccurate information about Patrick Brontë, claiming that he did not allow his children to eat meat. This is refuted by one of Emily Brontë's diary papers, in which she describes preparing meat and potatoes for dinner at the parsonage. It has been argued that Gaskell's approach transferred the focus of attention away from the 'difficult' novels, not just Brontë's.

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