Like Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte put life as she lived it, into her novels. So when you read her biography and one that I especially liked is Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell’s, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, you can see where all her material for Jane Eyre came from.
Charlotte passed away after only a year of the marriage she so wanted when she was young. Her father Reverend Patrick Bronte and her husband Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls had asked Gaskell if she would write the biography. Charlotte’s friend from her early school days, Ellen Nussey had recommended Ms. Gaskell to them. She wanted the articles written about Charlotte containing falsehoods refuted and felt choosing the right biographer was important. She also knew that Gaskell and Charlotte had been dear friends.
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