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BOOKS: Non-fiction; A sorry tale of deceit, corruption and literary con men The Letters of Charlotte Bronte: Volume Three 1852-1855 ed Margaret Smith CLARENDON PRESS pounds 85 pounds 85 (+ pounds 2.25 P&P PER ORDER) 0870 800 1122

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20040222
Author:Mark Bostridge

The appearance of this third and final volume of all Charlotte Bronte's surviving letters, with a selection of those by her friends and family, marks the culmination of a monumental publishing achievement. Roughly 950 letters written by Charlotte between 1829 and February 1855, a month before her untimely death in the early stages of pregnancy at the age of 39, have been located.

This is a poor tally when set against the collected correspondence of other Victorian literary giants, like Dickens or the Carlyles; but when compared with the extreme paucity of the surviving correspondence of the ...

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