Charlotte Brontë and Her CircleClement King Shorter
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle
Clement King Shorter
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Book language: English
593 pages
A late nineteenth-century literary biography, Clement King Shorter’s Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle gathers letters and recollections to portray the novelist and the family, friends, and correspondents around her. It offers a detailed, documentary view of Brontë’s life and Victorian literary society, valuable to readers who enjoy biography and literary history.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
Transcribed from the 1896 Hodder and Stoughton edition by Les Bowler. CHARLOTTE BRONTË AND HER CIRCLE BY CLEMENT K. SHORTER LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27 PATERNOSTER ROW 1896 CHARLOTTE BRONTË PREFACE It is claimed for the following book of some five hundred pages that the larger part of it is an addition of entirely new material to the romantic story of the Brontës. For this result, but very small credit is due to me; and my very hearty acknowledgments must be made, in the first place, to the Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, for whose generous surrender of personal inclination I must ever be grateful. It has been with extreme unwillingness that Mr. Nicholls has broken the silence of forty years, and he would not even now have consented to the publication of certain letters concerning his marriage, had he not been aware that these letters were already
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