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The life of Charlotte Brontë / by E.C. Gaskell ; in two volumes.

Accession number
PML 132523-24
Creator
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn, 1810-1865.
Published
London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1857.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
1st ed.
"London: Printed by Smith, Elder, & Co., Little Green Arbour Court, E.C."--v. 1, p. 352.
"Laetitia E. Wheelwright, 1857 from the author"--Written in pen on front flyleaf.
Notes in Miss Wheelwright's hand in v. 1 on half t.p. verso, concerning a memorial to Rev. Patrick Bronte and another note on p. 9 about his death.
Annotations of Miss Wheelwright p. 270-273, where Mrs. Gaskell describes Charlotte Bronte's life in Brussels on the basis of information given her by Miss Wheelwright, who was living there at the time with her father and her two sisters and attending the Pensionnat Héger.
"Laetitia E. Wheelwright 1857"--Written in pen in v. 2, front flyleaf.
Annotation in the hand of Miss Wheelwright throughout v. 2. She has marked certain passages therein as being supplied by her to Mrs. Gaskell from Charlotte Bronte's letters to her or her reminiscences.
Description
2 v. : fronts., facsim. ; 22 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Presentation inscription written in the hand of Smith Elder's clerk.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Classification
Department