Her pen made the first move
Ruth Bernard Yeazell, 7 July 1994
Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life
by Lyndall Gordon.
Chatto, 418 pp., £17.99, March 1994,9780701161378 Show More
by Lyndall Gordon.
Chatto, 418 pp., £17.99, March 1994,
The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill
by Miriam Bailin.
Cambridge, 169 pp., £30, April 1994,0 521 44526 4 Show More
by Miriam Bailin.
Cambridge, 169 pp., £30, April 1994,
“... Brontë was not yet 21, she submitted a sample of her work to the reigning poet laureate, Robert Southey, together with a letter in which she apparently confided her ambition ‘to be for ever known’ as a poet. Three months later, Southey replied. Though he acknowledged her gift and encouraged her to continue writing ‘for its own sake’, he also ... ”