The Letters of Charlotte Brontė With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends, Volume III: 1852-1855
, by Smith, Margaret- ISBN: 9780198185994 | 0198185995
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/8/2004
This volume covers the period from 1852 until Charlotte Brontės tragically early death in March 1855. We read of her long struggle to complete Villette , and her indignation when Harriet Martineau finds in it evidence that her mind is "full of the subject of one passion-love." Complete texts of many letters to Mrs. Gaskell illuminate Charlotte's friendship with the fellow-novelist who was to be her biographer. Subsequent letters touchingly reveal her love for her husband, her "tenderest nurse" during her last illness.