Raymond Carr

Secrets of the parsonage

issue 13 March 2004

  • The Letters of Charlotte Bront

    edited by Margaret Smith

    OUP, pp. 396

Of the hundreds of books I have reviewed in the last half century only two could be classified as definitive. Margaret Smith’s three volumes of Charlotte Bront

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