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Triangulation, desire, and discontent in The Life of Charlotte Bronte.(Critical essay)

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From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
Date: 20070922
Author:Peterson, Linda H.

Most, if not all, critical analyses of Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte (1857) discuss the parallels between the two novelists and the personal stake that Gaskell held in her biography of a fellow woman writer. It is, after all, a commonplace to speak of a biographer's investment in her subject. (1) Yet accounts of this particular biographer-subject relationship vary enormously--from the benign to the malignant, from "a friendship of tremendous warmth and attachment" to "self-aggrandizement and misrepresentation," even "treason." (2) At one end of the spectrum, Angus ...

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