Mina Laury
by Charlotte Brontë
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Charlotte Brontë was in her early twenties when she wrote this, so it's not juvenilia as some readers may label it, though it has the same feel as her childhood writing whilst bearing no resemblance to her famous works.
"Mina Laury" has hardly any plot to speak of. Essentially, the story revolves around a love-triangle, but to add to the mix one of the two women involved has a lovesick admirer.
It's hardly fair to criticize a work of this nature, considering the author was not writing for the public. At the height of her success Charlotte Brontë would doubtless never have dreamed of "Mina Laury" being published.
In short, if you're a Brontë fan wanting to read everything the famous sisters ever wrote, check this out with no high show more expectations. show less
"Mina Laury" has hardly any plot to speak of. Essentially, the story revolves around a love-triangle, but to add to the mix one of the two women involved has a lovesick admirer.
It's hardly fair to criticize a work of this nature, considering the author was not writing for the public. At the height of her success Charlotte Brontë would doubtless never have dreamed of "Mina Laury" being published.
In short, if you're a Brontë fan wanting to read everything the famous sisters ever wrote, check this out with no high show more expectations. show less
It's a very fragmentary 55 page long story, it's a love story set in an imaginary kingdom of Angria. A story between the Duke of Zamorna and his mistress Mina Laury and their love and her loyalty to him.
It's really for Charlotte Bronte fans rather than a general reader, it is a fragment rather than a full story, so it's missing chunks that are put in as asides.
It's really for Charlotte Bronte fans rather than a general reader, it is a fragment rather than a full story, so it's missing chunks that are put in as asides.
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Charlotte Bronte, the third of six children, was born April 21, 1816, to the Reverend Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell Bronte in Yorkshire, England. Along with her sisters, Emily and Anne, she produced some of the most impressive writings of the 19th century. The Brontes lived in a time when women used pseudonyms to conceal their female identity, show more hence Bronte's pseudonym, Currer Bell. Charlotte Bronte was only five when her mother died of cancer. In 1824, she and three of her sisters attended the Clergy Daughter's School in Cowan Bridge. The inspiration for the Lowood School in the classic Jane Eyre was formed by Bronte's experiences at the Clergy Daughter's School. Her two older sisters died of consumption because of the malnutrition and harsh treatment they suffered at the school. Charlotte and Emily Bronte returned home after the tragedy. The Bronte sisters fueled each other's creativity throughout their lives. As young children, they wrote long stories together about a complex imaginary kingdom they created from a set of wooden soldiers. In 1846, Charlotte Bronte, with her sisters Emily and Anne published a thin volume titled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. In the same year, Charlotte Bronte attempted to publish her novel, The Professor, but was rejected. One year later, she published Jane Eyre, which was instantly well received. Charlotte Bronte's life was touched by tragedy many times. Despite several proposals of marriage, she did not accept an offer until 1854 when she married the Reverend A. B. Nicholls. One year later, at the age of 39, she died of pneumonia while she was pregnant. Her previously rejected novel, The Professor, was published posthumously in 1857. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1838
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