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12 de ago. de 2024 · Ellen Nussey, Charlotte's friend, claimed to be Caroline Helstone and Mrs. Gaskell, in her Life of Charlotte Brontë, supports the claim. Certainly, Caroline's...
Hace 4 días · Others have passed down from collections that once belonged to Charlotte’s widower Arthur Bell Nicholls, her best friend Ellen Nussey and from the long standing parsonage servant Martha Brown. Still others, rather more sadly, have their origins in the many letters and items that were tricked out of Ellen Nussey by unscrupulous conmen and then sold to wealthy Brontë collectors in America and ...
28 de jul. de 2024 · The second letter was sent on the same day, 28th July 1854, to Charlotte’s great friend and sole bridesmaid Ellen Nussey: This must have been a tiring month for Charlotte, but it is clearly one that the new bride enjoyed greatly. Each stop on her Irish tour brought delights, and sometimes challenges.
Hace 3 días · The portrait of Nicholls, founded partly on the confidence of Ellen Nussey, seemed to him to be unjustified. Ellen Nussey, who hated Arthur, insists that his marital claims had perverted Charlotte's writing and she had to struggle against an interruption of her career.
11 de ago. de 2024 · Brontë had constructed Ellen Nussey as an exceptional category of person who could not risk exposure; Gaskell seems to have enacted the same process on her subject, rendering her, through this and other glosses and elisions, as an archetype of the “living barometer” (Buchan 127).
11 de ago. de 2024 · In 1832, aged fifteen, Brontë wrote to Ellen Nussey, offering solicitation and sympathy over a recent illness suffered by Nussey’s mother and brother, and noting that Mary Taylor, another schoolfriend, and her sister Martha, have recently “suffered from bad colds.”
5 de ago. de 2024 · Although she still had her father, Patrick Brontë, and close friend Ellen Nussey, she lost people she had the closest bonds with. So, by 1850, the severity of Charlotte’s grief is nearly incomprehensible.
