Answer: C) To understand Charlotte Brontë, one needs to understand the society in which she grew up.
Explanation: In the given excerpt from The Life of Charlotte Brontë by Elizabeth Gaskell, we can see that the speaker describes how, in order to be able to understand Charlotte Brontë, we should understand the population and society in which she and her sisters passed their earliest years, in this way we will be able to understand her perspective. So the correct answer is option C.
