Episode 829: The Friendship of Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell with Susan Dunne

Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell, two of the leading novelists of the 19th century, shared a remarkable literary friendship. After Charlotte's death, Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë became one of the most famous -- and controversial -- literary biographies ever written. 

In Episode 829, Jacke talks to Susan Dunne about her new book Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell: Their Lives, Friendship and Writings, which tells the deeper story of the friendship between the two women.

For more about Charlotte and the Brontë family, take a listen to Episode 752, in which Jacke talks to author Catherine Rayner, expert in the Brontës and a qualified nurse who's studied the effects of childhood on the development and psychology of adults, about the swirl of sibling psychologies explored in her book The Brontë Family: Sibling Rivalry and a Burial in Paradise.