Charlotte Brontë's life through clothes

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We might picture nineteenth century novelist and poet Charlotte Bronte's life as an isolated one, separated from much of the world and its fashions, as she whiled away the hours in her father's parsonage. The truth is very different. However. And in this episode of the History Extra podcast, Eleanor Horton tells Lauren Good about how the clothes Bronte wore reveal new sides to her personality. Hello, Eleanor. Thank you so much for joining me today. We're talking about your new book, Charlotte Bronte's Life Through Clothes, which provides such an intimate insight into Charlotte's character beyond her life as a writer. What was it that made you decide to explore Charlotte's life through her wardrobe?

Well, I studied English at Oxford, which I adored, and was particularly interested in the nineteenth century. And then I went to go and work as a milliner, which is a bit of a strange choice after Oxford. But after that I went back to academia to study eighteenth century studies, and as part of that I had an amazing dress historian for a teacher. And she really inspired And so when I came to do my doctoral studies, I decided to try and find a subject that brought these two sides of me together, that brought my passion for English literature and for history and also my interest in clothing. And so I looked around for someone who had a body of clothing that might allow me to do that. And I could not believe that after much searching, I should add, I came across Charlotte Bronte's clothing collection, which had never been studied before, and I could not believe that there would be someone so famous who would have all these clothes that no one had ever really looked at. So that's what started me on. What turned out to be a nine year journey. So long journey because there is so much to study, so much to get through, but it has taken me on such an exciting road, really, which I'm now very happy to be able to share with everyone in the form of a book.

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