Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle

Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle, by Clement K. Shorter
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Title: Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle
Author: Clement K. Shorter
Release Date: August 8, 2006 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1896 Hodder and Stoughton edition by Les Bowler.
CHARLOTTE BRONTË AND HER CIRCLE
BY CLEMENT K. SHORTER LONDON HODDER AND STOUGHTON 27 PATERNOSTER ROW 1896
PREFACE
It is claimed for the following book of some five hundred pages that the larger part of it is an addition of entirely new material to the romantic story of the Brontës. For this result, but very small credit is due to me; and my very hearty acknowledgments must be made, in the first place, to the Rev. Arthur Bell Nicholls, for whose generous surrender of personal inclination I must ever be grateful. It has been with extreme unwillingness that Mr. Nicholls has broken the silence of forty years, and he would not even now have consented to the publication of certain letters concerning his marriage, had he not been aware that these ...