Mr Charlotte Brontë

As we have previously informed on BrontëBlog, Alan H. Adamson's new biography of Arthur Bell Nicholls has been published by McGill-Queen's University Press:

Mr Charlotte Brontë The Life of Arthur Bell Nicholls
Alan H Adamson

A biography of Charlotte Brontë's husband that highlights his protection of her literary reputation.

Cloth (0773533656) 9780773533653
Release date: 2008-02-28
CA $29.95 | US $24.95 | UK £13.99
6X9
216pp
19 b&w photos

Few people seeking to avoid the glare of publicity have had more of it turned on them than Charlotte Brontë's husband, Arthur Bell Nicholls. Some critics have implied that he not only put a stop to her writing but might even have inadvertently caused her death.
Alan Adamson's biography takes recent scholarship into account and adds new material about Nicholl's family, education, and early life in Ireland to give a more balanced view. The book explores why Brontë, cool and often hostile towards Nicholls in the early days of his curacy at Haworth, came to respect and love him, and how Patrick Brontë, her difficult father, grew to rely on him after her death.
Drawing on Nicholl's correspondence with, among others, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ellen Nussey and Harriet Martineau, Mr Charlotte Brontë: The Life of Arthur Bell Nicholls presents a compelling picture of Nicholls' efforts to emphasize Brontë's literary reputation and curtail speculation about her private life.
Alan H. Adamson is distinguished professor emeritus of history, Concordia University, and the author of several works, including Sugar Without Slaves.

This is the table of contents:

Abbreviations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Illustrations xv
Family Tree xxvi

1 The Irish Background 3
2 Mr Macarthey 21
3 Macarthey in Love 35
4 Tomkins’ Brief Triumph 64
5 Her Will Be Done 83
6 Return to Banagher 127
7 The Struggle over Copyright 138

Epilogue 158
Notes 165
Bibliography 179
Index 185

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