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... Brontë in 1816 , Emily Brontë in 1818 , George Eliot in 1819. Mrs. Gaskell had been born in 1810 , and lesser novelists born in the Regency period include Charles Reade ( 1814 ) and Charles Kingsley ( 1819 ) . To- gether , they are the ...
... Brontë in 1816 , Emily Brontë in 1818 , George Eliot in 1819. Mrs. Gaskell had been born in 1810 , and lesser novelists born in the Regency period include Charles Reade ( 1814 ) and Charles Kingsley ( 1819 ) . To- gether , they are the ...
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... Emily Brontë is that she is a mys- tic . Wuthering Heights itself is not the record of a mystical experience - for indications of that we must go to her poems - but the novel is the statement of the conclusions derived from her ...
... Emily Brontë is that she is a mys- tic . Wuthering Heights itself is not the record of a mystical experience - for indications of that we must go to her poems - but the novel is the statement of the conclusions derived from her ...
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... Emily Brontë puts us , so to speak , in our place at the very beginning ; her technique dictates what we shall see ... Brontës , Charlotte M. Yonge ( 1823-1901 ) calls for little attention . She still has her small band of admirers , who ...
... Emily Brontë puts us , so to speak , in our place at the very beginning ; her technique dictates what we shall see ... Brontës , Charlotte M. Yonge ( 1823-1901 ) calls for little attention . She still has her small band of admirers , who ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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