Life of Charlotte Bronte, The by Elizabeth Gaskell; 1857/1998. Softcover. (Penguin Classics) (CO)

Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Bronte is a biography of one great Victorian woman novelist by another. Gaskell was a friend of Bronte's and, having been invited to write the official life, determined to both tell the truth and honor her friend. This edition collates all three previous editions, as well as the manuscript, offering fuller information about the process of writing and a more detailed explanation of the text than any previous edition.