Brontë Society:Brontë Society transactions Volume 2
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Plus…
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... ments. But they were the first to show the secret in operation. That they had their faults and their limitations is perfectly true, and there are proper times and places for dwelling on these. But this is neither the place nor the time. We are here entitled to attend to the credit side only--with no exaggeration but omitting to strike a balance which can be justly held over--the positive achievement of these girls, their positive rank in English literature, and the history of the English novel. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. A Paper read at Huddersfield, before the Bronte Society, on January 14th, 1899. By the Rev. Canon Bardsley, Vicar of Huddersfield. The names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell have been household words in my family from the days of my boyhood. As I have only time to speak of Charlotte Bronte, I will say at once that while I have a profound admiration for the genius of the writer, I have a feeling almost akin to veneration for the character of the woman. Her life was for the most part a tragedy, and yet her submission to the Divine will never failed. To quote the words of Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, she was a Christian heroine who could bear her cross with the firmness of a martyr saint. When I think of Charlotte Bronte forging in the workshop of her imagination such works as The Professor and Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, and when I recall the many sorrows of her life, I am reminded of that island in a far distant ocean where the rain falls almost continually and yet, and because of this, where the traveller discovers such a marvellous tropical vegetation that he forgets in his delight that it has been produced under a canopy of mist and darkness and gloom. It is one of the great characteristics of genius to rise above its... Brontë Society, Books, History, Brontë Society transactions Volume 2 Books>History The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 2; Original Publisher: Caxton Press; Publication date: 1899; Subjects: Biography<
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Brontë Society:Brontë Society transactions Volume 2
- nouveau livre ISBN: 9781154290783
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… Plus…
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... ments. But they were the first to show the secret in operation. That they had their faults and their limitations is perfectly true, and there are proper times and places for dwelling on these. But this is neither the place nor the time. We are here entitled to attend to the credit side only--with no exaggeration but omitting to strike a balance which can be justly held over--the positive achievement of these girls, their positive rank in English literature, and the history of the English novel. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. A Paper read at Huddersfield, before the Bronte Society, on January 14th, 1899. By the Rev. Canon Bardsley, Vicar of Huddersfield. The names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell have been household words in my family from the days of my boyhood. As I have only time to speak of Charlotte Bronte, I will say at once that while I have a profound admiration for the genius of the writer, I have a feeling almost akin to veneration for the character of the woman. Her life was for the most part a tragedy, and yet her submission to the Divine will never failed. To quote the words of Sir James Kay Shuttleworth, she was a Christian heroine who could bear her cross with the firmness of a martyr saint. When I think of Charlotte Bronte forging in the workshop of her imagination such works as The Professor and Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette, and when I recall the many sorrows of her life, I am reminded of that island in a far distant ocean where the rain falls almost continually and yet, and because of this, where the traveller discovers such a marvellous tropical vegetation that he forgets in his delight that it has been produced under a canopy of mist and darkness and gloom. It is one of the great characteristics of genius to rise above its... Brontë Society, Books, History, Brontë Society transactions Volume 2 Books>History, General Books LLC<
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