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March 20, 1989

Featured Pick

Judith Thurman reads the many biographies of Charlotte Brontë and her family, from Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1857 book to Rebecca Fraser’s in 1988.

Judith Thurman, "Reader, I Married Him": Charlotte Brontë's famous line reexamined, marriage as literary resolution, the Victorian wedding plot.

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