Since its publication in 1857, Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Life of Charlotte Brontë has divided opinion. It attracted immediate controversy and became a bestseller. But how true is it? A new short season of online events with the Brontë Parsonage Museum tells the real story of the friendship between Charlotte Bronte and Elizabeth Gaskell, and the literary legacy it inspired. The Invention of Charlotte Brontë Doomed survivor of a family of geniuses, Charlotte Brontë had a life as dramatic as her
