Margaret Smith, editor of The Letters of Charlotte Brontë (3 volumes, OUP, 1995-2004) and co-author with Christine Alexander of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës (OUP, 2003), is a Vice-President of the Brontë Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Science, University of Birmingham.

Margaret Smith's new Selected Letters is extremely welcome...it represents an impressive achievement of choice; it reads remarkably fluently, and gives us almost all of Charlotte's most powerful letters...This scholarly and affordable volume provides vivid access to Charlotte Brontë's inner life through an admirably well-chosen core of accurate, annotated texts.

• List of Letters ; Introduction ; Chronology ; Biographical Notes ; LETTERS ; Bibliography

Margaret Smith, editor of The Letters of Charlotte Brontë (3 volumes, OUP, 1995-2004) and co-author with Christine Alexander of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës (OUP, 2003), is a Vice-President of the Brontë Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Science, University of Birmingham.

Margaret Smith's new Selected Letters is extremely welcome...it represents an impressive achievement of choice; it reads remarkably fluently, and gives us almost all of Charlotte's most powerful letters...This scholarly and affordable volume provides vivid access to Charlotte Brontë's inner life through an admirably well-chosen core of accurate, annotated texts.

• List of Letters ; Introduction ; Chronology ; Biographical Notes ; LETTERS ; Bibliography

Margaret Smith, editor of The Letters of Charlotte Brontë (3 volumes, OUP, 1995-2004) and co-author with Christine Alexander of The Oxford Companion to the Brontës (OUP, 2003), is a Vice-President of the Brontë Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Science, University of Birmingham.

Margaret Smith's new Selected Letters is extremely welcome...it represents an impressive achievement of choice; it reads remarkably fluently, and gives us almost all of Charlotte's most powerful letters...This scholarly and affordable volume provides vivid access to Charlotte Brontë's inner life through an admirably well-chosen core of accurate, annotated texts.

• List of Letters ; Introduction ; Chronology ; Biographical Notes ; LETTERS ; Bibliography