Margaret Smith is Honorary Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Research in Arts and Social Sciences, University of Birmingham

"Margaret Smith's comprehensive and meticulous edition of The Letters of Charlotte Brontë appears like a banquet of rich and wholesome food for those hitherto condemned to meagre and contaminated scraps. . . . Smith's editorial apparatus is amazingly thorough . . . [it] gives us not only a complete and reliable text, but also an extraordinary wealth of annotation. . . . Volume 2 of Smith's edition of Charlotte Brontë's Letters more than fulfils the expectations raised by volume 1. At last we can read Charlotte's words in as reliable a text as is humanly possible, together with all the contextual information necessary to bring the letters alive with contemporary resonances."--Victorian Studies