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Page 181
... Brontë's resemblance to Byron is quite striking ; one might say that she is the female answer to Byron ; and it is in this sense that Jane Eyre is the first romantic novel in English . Everything in the novel is staked upon the validity ...
... Brontë's resemblance to Byron is quite striking ; one might say that she is the female answer to Byron ; and it is in this sense that Jane Eyre is the first romantic novel in English . Everything in the novel is staked upon the validity ...
Page 188
... Brontë makes no distinction between the natural and the super- natural ; her world is one and , rendered ever so concretely as it may be , it is a spiritual world . This explains why the characters and their actions , on the face of it ...
... Brontë makes no distinction between the natural and the super- natural ; her world is one and , rendered ever so concretely as it may be , it is a spiritual world . This explains why the characters and their actions , on the face of it ...
Page 349
... Brontë's criticism , 111– 112 ; influence , 112 Autobiography of Mark Rutherford , The , 273-4 Autobiography ... Brontë , Anne , 178 , 179 Brontë , Branwell , 179 Brontë , Charlotte , 133 , 177 ; on Jane Austen , 111-12 ; Shirley , 178 ...
... Brontë's criticism , 111– 112 ; influence , 112 Autobiography of Mark Rutherford , The , 273-4 Autobiography ... Brontë , Anne , 178 , 179 Brontë , Branwell , 179 Brontë , Charlotte , 133 , 177 ; on Jane Austen , 111-12 ; Shirley , 178 ...
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