Letter to Ellen Nussey
Title:
Letter to Ellen Nussey
Description:
Charlotte Brontë begins this letter to her lifelong friend with an update on her efforts to secure work as a governess. She goes on to relate a visit from the wife of a curate whose husband ruined their family through his drinking and “treated her and her child savagely.” Brontë attests to her own distaste for the curate even before she knew about his abusive character. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell quotes this section of the letter in her biography of Brontë, noting that it “shows her instinctive aversion to a particular class of men, whose vices some have supposed she looked upon with indulgence.”
Creator:
Brontë, Charlotte
Date:
1840
Coverage:
[Haworth Parsonage, Yorkshire]
Display Date:
12 November 1840
Hover Text:
Charlotte Brontë — writer
Published Item:
U
Item Index:
29
Item Sort:
1800s
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