C Brontë question Hi I think someone on this sub, perhaps…
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C Brontë question
Hi I think someone on this sub, perhaps many people, will know the answer to the question.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë, one question I’m puzzling over: following the triumph of Jane Eyre and the consequent brisk sales of Shirley, why does she still not seem to have any money ?
An excerpt from one letter I just read in the bio has Brontë penny-pinching over shawls and slips , at a moment when she’s a huge literary celebrity.
Gaskell herself doesn’t address this or hasn’t yet
Why isn’t she getting royalties , did her agent suck?? (Just joking in that I know she didn’t have an agent )— maybe they didn’t do royalties back then or ..? Or was she getting taken advantage of , or..?
Thanks so much
#entertainment
Hi I think someone on this sub, perhaps many people, will know the answer to the question.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë, one question I’m puzzling over: following the triumph of Jane Eyre and the consequent brisk sales of Shirley, why does she still not seem to have any money ?
An excerpt from one letter I just read in the bio has Brontë penny-pinching over shawls and slips , at a moment when she’s a huge literary celebrity.
Gaskell herself doesn’t address this or hasn’t yet
Why isn’t she getting royalties , did her agent suck?? (Just joking in that I know she didn’t have an agent )— maybe they didn’t do royalties back then or ..? Or was she getting taken advantage of , or..?
Thanks so much
#entertainment
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