Such a Strong Wish for Wings”
The Life of Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fallen Angels
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411326 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Meghan Burke Hattaway (The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 671-690 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150314000242 |
| OpenAlex | W2098454632 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
Elizabeth Gaskell undertook the writing of The Life of Charlotte Brontë with a highly specific purpose in mind: it was meant, first and foremost, as a defense. Spurred by the urgings of longtime family friend Ellen Nussey, who was despairing over “the misrepresentations and the malignant spirit” at work in recent commentaries about the late author of Jane Eyre , Patrick Brontë had written to Gaskell only three months after his daughter's untimely death in 1855 and expressed the hope that an “established Author” like herself might produce a biography of Charlotte Brontë immediately. Gaskell was thus charged with the work of presenting to the world a definitive account of the celebrated, if enigmatic, writer's life, in defiance of the inflammatory and rumor-filled posthumous reports that were circulating
Art · Biography · Daughter · Literature · Rumor · Wish · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Historical and Scientific Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2021 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |