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... Brontė in 1816 , Emily Brontė 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 ) . Together , they are the ...
... Brontė in 1816 , Emily Brontė 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 ) . Together , they are the ...
Page 194
... Emily Brontė makes use of no such set descriptive passages as we find variously in Scott , Dickens , George Eliot , Hardy , or Lawrence . The reality of her characters cannot be questioned , but their reality is of an utterly different ...
... Emily Brontė makes use of no such set descriptive passages as we find variously in Scott , Dickens , George Eliot , Hardy , or Lawrence . The reality of her characters cannot be questioned , but their reality is of an utterly different ...
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... Emily Brontė's province is reality , but spiritual reality ; in Wuthering 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 Brontė's province is reality , but spiritual reality ; in Wuthering 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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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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