The Life of Charlotte Bront is the posthumous biography of Charlotte Bront by fellow novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The first edition was published in 1857, and a major source of the text was the hundreds of letters sent by Bront to her lifelong friend Ellen Nussey. Although quite frank in many places, Gaskell suppressed details of Charlotte's love for Constantin H ger, a married man, on the grounds that it would be too great an affront to contemporary...