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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 as she might have been had she been born to wealth and social position . She is truly one of the most vital and attractive of Victorian heroines ; she has all Jane Eyre's and Lucy Snowe's spirit , pride , and wit without ...
... Emily Brontë as she might have been had she been born to wealth and social position . She is truly one of the most vital and attractive of Victorian heroines ; she has all Jane Eyre's and Lucy Snowe's spirit , pride , and wit without ...
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... Emily Brontë's province is reality , but spiritual reality ; in Wuth- ering Heights death is not an end but a liberation of the spirit , and in the world of Wuthering Heights those we normally call the living and the dead exist side by ...
... Emily Brontë's province is reality , but spiritual reality ; in Wuth- ering Heights death is not an end but a liberation of the spirit , and in the world of Wuthering Heights those we normally call the living and the dead exist side by ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 7 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 31 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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