How Long to Read The Life of Charlotte Bronte

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life of Charlotte Bronte?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 35 minutes to read The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Gaskell

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

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Charlotte Bront� (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bront� sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature. She first published her works (including her best known novel, Jane Eyre) under the pen name Currer Bell.Early life and education:Charlotte Bront� was born in Thornton, west of Bradford in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 1816, the third of the six children of Maria (n�e Branwell) and Patrick Bront� (formerly surnamed Brunty or Prunty), an Irish Anglican clergyman. In 1820 her family moved a few miles to the village of Haworth, where her father had been appointed perpetual curate of St Michael and All Angels Church. Maria died of cancer on 15 September 1821, leaving five daughters, Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and a son, Branwell, to be taken care of by her sister, Elizabeth Branwell.In August 1824 Patrick sent Charlotte, Emily, Maria and Elizabeth to the Clergy Daughters'' School at Cowan Bridge in Lancashire. Charlotte maintained that the school''s poor conditions permanently affected her health and physical development, and hastened the deaths of Maria (born 1814) and Elizabeth (born 1815), who both died of tuberculosis in June 1825. After the deaths of his older daughters, Patrick removed Charlotte and Emily from the school. Charlotte used the school as the basis for Lowood School in Jane Eyre.........Clement King Shorter (19 July 1857 - 19 November 1926) was a British journalist and literary critic..........Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (n�e Stevenson; 29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell''s The Life of Charlotte Bront�, published in 1857, was the first biography of Bront�. Some of Gaskell''s best known novels are Cranford (1851-53), North and South (1854-55), and Wives and Daughters (1865).EARLY LIFE:Gaskell was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson on 29 September 1810 in Lindsey Row, Chelsea, at the house which is now 93 Cheyne Walk.She was the youngest of eight children; only she and her brother John survived infancy. Her father, William Stevenson, a Unitarian from Berwick-upon-Tweed, was minister at Failsworth, Lancashire, but resigned his orders on conscientious grounds; he moved to London in 1806 with the intention of going to India after he was appointed private secretary to the Earl of Lauderdale, who was to become Governor General of India. That position did not materialise, however, and instead Stevenson was nominated Keeper of the Treasury Records.His wife, Elizabeth Holland, came from a family from the English Midlands that was connected with other prominent Unitarian families, including the Wedgwoods, the Martineaus, the Turners and the Darwins. When she died 13 months after giving birth to her youngest daughter, she left a bewildered husband who saw no alternative for Elizabeth but to be sent to live with her mother''s sister, Hannah Lumb, in Knutsford, Cheshire. While she was growing up, Elizabeth''s future was uncertain, as she had no personal wealth and no firm home, though she was a permanent guest at her aunt and grandparents'' house.Her father remarried to Catherine Thomson in 1814. They had a son, William, in 1815, and a daughter, Catherine in 1816. Although Elizabeth spent several years without seeing her father, to whom she was devoted, her older brother John often visited her in Knutsford. John was destined for the Royal Navy from an early age, like his grandfathers and uncles, but he had no entry and had to join the Merchant Navy with the East India Company''s fleet. John unfortunately went missing in 1827 during an expedition to India....

How long is The Life of Charlotte Bronte?

The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Gaskell is 386 pages long, and a total of 98,816 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 121% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Life of Charlotte Bronte Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 59 minutes to read The Life of Charlotte Bronte aloud.

What Reading Level is The Life of Charlotte Bronte?

The Life of Charlotte Bronte is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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