Book summary
Streszczenie książki Charlotte Brontë i jej krąg
- 7 min czytania
- 10 key ideas
- Nagranie wkrótce
Charlotte Brontë's letters reveal life in a parsonage and the world of three writing sisters.
3 months free · unlimited eBooks, audiobooks and summaries, and print and large print at cost
Nothing to pay today · Napiszemy do Ciebie e-mail przed pobraniem opłaty · Anuluj online dwoma kliknięciami
Charlotte Brontë i jej krąg — najważniejsze informacje
Streszczenie: 7 min czytania
- Czas czytania
- Około 11 h 40 min9 h 15 min fast, 13 h 55 min slow
- Długość
- Liczba słów: 166 900
- Poziom trudności w bibliotece
- Wymagająca lektura long sentences, a rich vocabulary
- Pierwsze wydanie
- 1896by Clement King Shorter
Reading time at 238 words a minute (fast 300, slow 200). Ile czasu zajmuje przeczytanie klasyków · Zaktualizowano
Za darmo przez 3 mies.
Uzyskaj za darmo pełne streszczenie książki: Charlotte Brontë i jej krąg
- 200 000+ klasycznych książek jako e-booki, audiobooki i 15-minutowe streszczenia oraz wydania drukowane i duży druk w cenie kosztów druku
- Do 5 czytelników w twoim domu w jednym planie
Charlotte Brontë i jej krąg in short
The book follows one life through the letters of the people who shared it. Shorter begins with Mrs. Gaskell's biography and the reasons it needed mending.
What Charlotte Brontë i jej krąg is about
What does a biographer do when a silent widower hands him a bundle of letters that no one has read for forty years? In March 1895 Clement Shorter steps off a train in a quiet town in central Ireland. The Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls, the husband of Charlotte Brontë, meets him with a warm handshake and places every paper he owns in Shorter's hands.
The result is Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle, published in 1896. Shorter, a London journalist, builds the book around letters from Charlotte, her family and her friends. You get the Brontë story as the people nearest to it knew it. The first thing to grasp is why a new book was needed at all.
Dla kogo. Readers who love the Brontë novels and want the real lives behind them will enjoy this book. It suits anyone drawn to letters, close friendships and Victorian publishing.
The 10 key ideas
Key idea 1 · free to read
Mrs. Gaskell's biography left much unsaid
Mrs. Gaskell published her Life of Charlotte Brontë in 1857, two years after Charlotte died. Mr. Brontë chose her himself, and she worked hard. She visited Haworth, Cowan Bridge and Brussels, and she wrote to Charlotte's old friends for their letters.
The book also stirred up trouble. Mr. Brontë disliked the tales of his bad temper. The worst error concerned Branwell and Mrs. Robinson. Mrs. Gaskell accepted his claim of a love affair, and no proof of it existed. A retraction appeared in the Times in May 1857.
Forty years later, interest kept growing. Miss Ellen Nussey gave Shorter three hundred seventy letters, and Mr. Nicholls added manuscripts and more letters. Shorter also warns that some printed letters are forgeries. A good first biography earns a second book that mends its mistakes.
- 2Zacznij za darmo, by czytać
Patrick Brontë and Maria Branwell began with letters
Patrick Brontë was born in County Down, Ireland, in 1777, one of ten children of a farmer.
- 3Zacznij za darmo, by czytać
Haworth parsonage shaped the children's early lives
The family moved to Haworth in February 1820.
- 4Zacznij za darmo, by czytać
Friendship with Ellen Nussey ran through every year
Charlotte met Ellen Nussey at Roe Head school in January 1831.
- 5Zacznij za darmo, by czytać
Charlotte learned hard lessons as a governess
Charlotte returned to Roe Head as a teacher in 1835.
- 6Zacznij za darmo, by czytać
Brussels gave her a teacher and a story
In February 1842 Charlotte and Emily entered the Pensionnat Héger in Brussels.
- 7Zacznij za darmo, by czytać
Grief took Branwell and both younger sisters
Branwell, born in 1817, was the family's hope.
- 8Zacznij za darmo, by czytać
Publishers and friends made her an author
In January 1846 Charlotte wrote to Aylott and Jones about a book of poems.
- 9Zacznij za darmo, by czytać
Fame took her to London but not out of herself
After 1849 Charlotte visited London several times, usually staying with the mother of her publisher, George Smith.
- 10Zacznij za darmo, by czytać
Marriage came late and ended too soon
Charlotte received three early proposals.
Read all 10 key ideas now
3 months free, then 0,14 USD a day: unlimited eBooks, audiobooks and summaries, and print and large print at cost.
- Nothing to pay today
- Napiszemy do Ciebie e-mail przed pobraniem opłaty
- Anuluj online dwoma kliknięciami
The whole book is coming to your plan
The full text of Charlotte Brontë i jej krąg opens soon. Keep this summary as a file today.
Paperback, hardcover and large print, printed for you at cost, are on their way. Email me when it is printed
Pytania o Charlotte Brontë i jej krąg
What is Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle about?
It is a biography built from letters. Clement Shorter gathers Charlotte Brontë's own letters and those of her family and friends to tell her life, from her parents' courtship to her death in 1855.
Who was in Charlotte Brontë's circle?
The circle includes her father Patrick, her sisters Emily and Anne, her brother Branwell, friends Ellen Nussey and Mary Taylor, teacher Miss Wooler, publisher W. S. Williams, George Smith, Mrs. Gaskell and Charlotte's husband Arthur Bell Nicholls.
Why did Shorter write a book after Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë?
Forty years had passed, and new letters had come to light, especially from Ellen Nussey and Mr. Nicholls. Shorter adds fresh material and corrects mistakes, such as the story of Branwell and Mrs. Robinson.
When was Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle written?
Shorter finished it in September 1896. He had visited Mr. Nicholls in Ireland in March 1895, and the book rests on the papers and letters he was given there and elsewhere.
Zacytuj to wydanie
Shorter, Clement King. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/charlotte-bronte-and-her-circle.
Shorter, C. K. (2026). Charlotte Brontë and her circle. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/charlotte-bronte-and-her-circle (Original work published 1896)
Shorter, Clement King. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/charlotte-bronte-and-her-circle.
@book{shorter2026charlotte,
author = {Shorter, Clement King},
title = {Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle},
publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/charlotte-bronte-and-her-circle},
note = {First published 1896}
}
Crime and Punishment
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
The Iliad
Romeo and Juliet
The Picture of Dorian GrayZa darmo przez 3 mies.
Uzyskaj za darmo pełne streszczenie książki: Charlotte Brontë i jej krąg
- 200 000+ klasycznych książek jako e-booki, audiobooki i 15-minutowe streszczenia oraz wydania drukowane i duży druk w cenie kosztów druku
- Do 5 czytelników w twoim domu w jednym planie
