Smith, Elder & Co., London, 1909.  Hard cover, 441 pages plus ads.  Green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt.  Binding sound with a slight lean; corner and spine end wear with some fraying and tiny tears.  No jacket.  Some foxing/age spotting on some interior pages; occasional pencil margin lines and pencil underlines.  One plate facsimile of hand written manuscript.  Biography of Charlotte Bronte, novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters.  Mrs. Gaskell covers her childhood, education, family life, health and illness, career, letters, and concludes with Charlotte’s death.