![]() ![]() However, this biography does make Charlotte appealing and some keys to Charlotte's true nature may be discovered from Mrs. Gaskell was too much a slave to her era to look for it. The truth must surely be somewhere in between but Mrs. ![]() ![]() Gaskell seems to doubt that Emily could be redeemed at all but paints Anne as little less than a saint. Emily is unfairly portrayed as a selfish, angry enigma who was even more unlady like than Charlotte. Charlotte is seen not as a brave survivor of her family tragedies but a woman who can't be blamed for her faults because of the circumstances of her life. Gaskell seems to apologize for Charlotte's perceived unlady like qualties, begging the reader to excuse Charlotte for being so warped as to belive a woman could think on her own. An interesting and entertaing book it does not, however, describe Charlotte as she really was. This biography is a well written and affectionate portrait of Charlotte Bronte who was Gaskell's personal friend. ![]()
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