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Charlotte Brontë
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  • A week later, while we were taking another try at the puffins—you can't believe how hard it is to make a puffin not look like a chump— I told Mr. Powell about Miss Cowper and Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • Did not Charlotte Brontë fail entirely to understand Jane Austen?†   (source)
  • Thus, with less genius for writing than Charlotte Brontë, she got infinitely more said.†   (source)
  • What were they blaming Charlotte Brontë for?†   (source)
  • Now, in the passages I have quoted from JANE EYRE, it is clear that anger was tampering with the integrity of Charlotte Brontë the novelist.†   (source)
  • Charlotte Brontë, with all her splendid gift for prose, stumbled and fell with that clumsy weapon in her hands.†   (source)
  • But I doubt whether that was true of Charlotte Brontë, I said, opening JANE EYRE and laying it beside PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.†   (source)
  • One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say three hundred a year—but the foolish woman sold the copyright of her novels outright for fifteen hundred pounds; had somehow possessed more knowledge of the busy world, and towns and regions full of life; more practical experience, and intercourse with her kind and acquaintance with a variety of character.†   (source)
  • She had nothing like the love of Nature, the fiery imagination, the wild poetry, the brilliant wit, the brooding wisdom of her great predecessors, Lady Winchilsea, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen and George Eliot; she could not write with the melody and the dignity of Dorothy Osborne—indeed she was no more than a clever girl whose books will no doubt be pulped by the publishers in ten years' time.†   (source)
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