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... Charlotte Brontë's criticism : Anything like warmth or enthusiasm , anything energetic , poignant , heartfelt , is utterly out of place in commending these works : all such demonstrations the authoress would have met with a well - bred ...
... Charlotte Brontë's criticism : Anything like warmth or enthusiasm , anything energetic , poignant , heartfelt , is utterly out of place in commending these works : all such demonstrations the authoress would have met with a well - bred ...
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... Charlotte 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 ...
... Charlotte 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 ...
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... Charlotte Brontë held in especial contempt , are a bore and show how small a sense of the comic she possessed . The omniscient narrator is also a bore ; we are nagged , bullied , lectured endlessly . What remains — and it is ...
... Charlotte Brontë held in especial contempt , are a bore and show how small a sense of the comic she possessed . The omniscient narrator is also a bore ; we are nagged , bullied , lectured endlessly . What remains — and it is ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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