When Elizabeth Gaskell published a biography of her late friend Charlotte Brontë in 1857, it caused a furor. More than 100 letters, ranging from the litigious to the mildly vexatious, arrived at the ...
The scandal that engulfed the last Brontë sister's death When Charlotte Brontë died—the last of her massively talented family to succumb to an early death—the press entered a feeding frenzy. A friend ...