- Paperback: 328 pages
- Publisher: University Press of the Pacific (December 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1410210731
- ISBN-13: 978-1410210739
- Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 12.9 x 2.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,150,158 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"...because all the best things about the Brontë's have been said already, I have had to fall back on the humble day-labour of clearing away some of the rubbish that has gathered round them. "Round Charlotte it has gathered to such an extent that it is difficult to see her plainly through the mass of it. Much has been cleared away; much remains. Mrs. Oliphant's dreadful theories are still on record. The excellence of Madame Duclaux's monograph perpetuates her one serious error. Mr. Swinburne's Note immortalises his. M. Héger was dug up again the other day. "It may be said that I have been calling up ghosts for the mere fun of laying them; and there might be something in it, but that really these ghosts still walk. At any rate many people believe in them, even at this time of day. M. Dimnet believes firmly that poor Mrs. Robinson was in love with Branwell Brontë. Some of us still think that Charlotte was in love with M. Héger. They cannot give him up any more than M. Dimnet can give up Mrs. Robinson. "Such things would be utterly unimportant but that they tend to obscure the essential quality and greatness of Charlotte Brontë's genius. ..."
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When six months ago Mr. Thomas Seccombe suggested that I should write a short essay on "The Three Brontes" I agreed with some misgiving. Read the first page
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I was searching for a biography of the Bronte siblings. What I found was this incomprehensible mash of random feelings and impressions the author seems to have had about previous biographies of the Brontes. There is little biography here; it is simply her agreements with or refutations of previous biographers, often not even explaining what those biographers had stated to begin with.
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