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Her Correspondence
Charlotte's correspondence is a very important aspect of Brontëana. Her letters, both professionally and personally, are so vast and reveal such aspects of the Brontë's lives that without them, our knowledge would be severely limited. One of her main correspondents was Ellen Nussey, a school friend whom Charlotte kept up a great and close friendship with her entire life. Many know how this precious resource was almost lost to us. After Charlotte's marriage, Arthur, her husband, was concerned about her letters getting into the wrong hands, and so he made Miss Nussey promise to destroy all the letters that she received or he would censor the correspondence. She promised, but thankfully reneged on her promise, and therefore we have most of their correspondence to this day. Charlotte also wrote very extensively to her publishers, as Currer Bell and later on as Charlotte Brontë. These reveal the literary aspect of hers and her sister's lives. She did not talk to Ellen Nussey about her literary fame, and Miss Nussey was in fact in the dark about it for a long time, until the Brontë's identities were at last revealed. Below I have transcribed some of Charlotte's letters, the ones with the most interest. All transcriptions have been taken from 'The Letters of Charlotte Brontë' vol 1,2,&3, edited by Margaret Smith, unless otherwise noted.
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