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Title: Charlotte Brontë. A monograph
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Reid, T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss), 1842-1905
Subjects: Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855 Brontë family
Publisher: New York, Scribner, Armstrong & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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it must be conducted through her solicitors. Thusshe was crippled in her attempt to paint a full-lengthpicture of a remarkable life, and her story was whatMr. Thackeray called it, necessarily incomplete,though most touching and admirable. There was, moreover, another matter in which Mrs.Gaskell was at fault. She seems to have set out withthe determination that her work should be pitched ina particular key. She had formed her own conceptionof Charlotte Brontes character, and with the passionof the true artist and the ability of the practisedwriter she made everything bend to that conception.The result was that whilst she produced a singularlystriking and effective portrait of her heroine, it wasnot one which was absolutely satisfactory to thosewho were the oldest and closest friends of CharlotteBrontk If the truth must be told, the life of theauthor of Jane Eyre was by no means so joylessas the world now believes it to have been. Thatduring the later years in which this wonderful woman
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/ I.) MRS. GASKELLS MEMOIR. 3 produced the works by which she has made hername famous, her career was clouded by sorrow andoppressed by anguish both mental and physical, isperfectly true. That she was made what she was inthe furnace of affliction cannot be doubted ; but it isnot true that she was throughout her whole life thevictim of that extreme depression of spirits whichafflicted her at rare intervals, and which Mrs. Gaskellhas presented to us with so much vividness and em-phasis. On the contrary, her letters show that at anyrate up to the time of her leaving for Brussels, shewas a happy and high-spirited girl, and that even tothe very last she had the faculty of overcoming hersorrows by means of that steadfast courage which washer most precious possession, and to which she was somuch indebted for her successive victories over trialsand disappointments of no ordinary character. Thosewho imagine that Charlotte Brontes spirit was in anydegree a morbid or melancholy one do her a sing

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