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    340 NOTICES OF BOOKS.

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    ¦ ^* Reprin Sail Ts . . B Mrs Y Acton . ...

    in which time Mrs ) to . the Gaskell genera has l wisdom displayed and herein carefulness in her and " Life discrimination of Charlotte

    Bronte /' It is interesting to look back and to consider the . reception of

    our " Jane recollection Eyre , " and no the novel guesses has created made as such to the a sensation author . of it It . made Within the

    critics reputation . Before of its their "writer mark at once had , and been this set almost upon it without the reading help public of the

    exaggeration had different discovered . "While its its morbidness from value one . party The and its op you inions evil heard tendencies about of its it : coarseness from were another widel , its y

    of Every you a heard new body flavor read of , its to it power whether appetites , its they , sickened ori approve ginality by d , the and of it facetious its or not wondrous . and It smacked fashion truth - .

    to able be diet an continuousl extraordin y served work to them and .. then It was came allowe questions d on all as hands to its ;

    author . Was the author ary man or woman ? No woman had ever before written with this unfeminine strength , and yet there are passages

    in the book which could scarcely have been written by a man . Grey People " were were at published fault . When some " two _Withering months Hei after ghts it " was and « at Agnes once

    , decided that these were earlier works by the same hand as _" Jane was Eyre . identified " The gigantic with the strength of which "Wuthering had created Heights Thornfield " particularl Hall y , power

    • author and were its fewer , notwithstanding inmates feminine . " Shirley _indications that " Miss proved in it Bronte to than most herself in peop the le considered preceding the sex of book there the .

    was Slowl a y woman the secret , and oozed that Ellis out . and It _Tbecame Acton had known been that her Currer two sisters Bell ,

    now dead . to wondered That be products " Wuthering atIt of was the Hei a same new - ghts mind " and of as << writing A " gnes Jane which Grey Eyre " came , " were is to not supposed us to from be

    those northern . moorsand genus we at first failed to distinguish the different species . The , circumstances surrounding the sisters had

    been for the most part the same , and these gave a like color to their unlike characters . These circumstances were in much peculiar

    to themselves , in all dissimilar to those which environed their southern readers . The eccentric character of their father ; their

    strange early training ( six little motherless children left wholly to themselveswandering out the moor hand in hand without

    eldest supervisor reading , , or a gathered together to upon the rest in . their having " children few play _' s things study" , but the

    inventing and acting newpaper plays of their , own , writing stories and organising magazines , and talking politics , kept rigidly as to dress

    and diet , always thoughtful and silent ) ; their experiences at Cowan ' s bridge ; the early deaths of the two eldest sisters ; the

    influence of their brother Branwell upon . them ; even the situation

    340 Notices Of Books.

    340 NOTICES OF BOOKS .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1860, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011860/page/52/