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LX.—NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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^».Reprints Hall. . B Mrs y Ac . Graskel...
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Lx.—Notices Of Books.
LX . —NOTICES OF BOOKS .
^».Reprints Hall. . B Mrs Y Ac . Graskel...
_^» . Reprints Hall . . B Mrs y Ac . Graskell ton Bell _' s Life ( Miss of Ann Charlotte Bronte Bronte ) . Smith and and The Elder Tenant . of Wildfell
Clieax _? editions of J ~ ane _HJi / re , Shirley , and Wuthering Heights , etc . THE THREE SISTERS .
alway " I s Had those grea on t p whose leasure sty in le reading or sentimen a , few t the books writer , but ' s individual not many : na preferring ture was "
plainly stamped . _"—Vxllette . ( Continued from £ ) age 350 . )
While her two sisters were employed , the one on " Wuthering Heihts" the other on "Anes Grey" Charlotte was writing" " The
g , g , Professor . '' Most of our readers will by this time have read this novel and its preface , and have gathered therefrom a knowledge of the
principles on which it was written . Realism in character and incident , the actual whenever admissiblethe probableor rather the most
ordinary , In all cases . Upon some , such maxims , the writer started . And yet while clinging in detail to the letter of these maxims , she
violates their spirit continuously from the first page . The book is written autobiograpliicallyand the _autobiographer is a man . That
, is to say , In order that she may represent actual life as it has appeared to her , that she may faithfully narrate what she has seen
and felt , the authoress puts herself into a form which must necessatiments rily have . altered This lan or modified of unsexing the whole themselves of her was experi commo ences n and enoug sen h -
p among the bygone race of romancists ; but in them it mattered littlesince their romances never aimed at analysis of individual
thoug , hts and feelings , but at recital of startling incidents and surprises , elaboration of plot , and broad sketching of abstract passions .
Dickens has given , in his " Bleak House , " a notable example of this method of false personation in the present time . It is a perilous
experiment for any one to make , an experiment almost suicidal to one honestlpossessing actualism . Both " Wuthering Heights "
and " The Tenant y of Wildfell Hall" commence , it will be remembered , as male narrations , but both very soon pass on the distaif
into female hands ,. Nevertheless , Ourrer Bell has succeeded in making the best of this false position , has succeded so well that women
say "it Is very natural , " just as men compliment Mr . Dickens on his " Confessions of Esther Summerson . " Long after the other
two stories had found a publisher , " The Professor " was still wandering in its travel-labelled cover , finding no rest . " Currer Bell ' s
book found acceptance nowhere , nor any acknowledgment of merii ; , so that something like the chill of despair began to invade her heart . "
We cannot _uudwrotaiid why this book was so universally rejected ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 413, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/53/
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