Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . o whichshe had endeavoured to impart a more vivid in-terest than belonged to The Professor. The publishers desired to see the manuscript, which wasdespatched to them on 24th August. It wasaccepted, printed, and published by i6th October,and in a very short time, and without the aid ofthe critics, attained a great success. One of its 522 Charlotte Bronte reviewers thus commenced his article : Since the
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . o whichshe had endeavoured to impart a more vivid in-terest than belonged to The Professor. The publishers desired to see the manuscript, which wasdespatched to them on 24th August. It wasaccepted, printed, and published by i6th October,and in a very short time, and without the aid ofthe critics, attained a great success. One of its 522 Charlotte Bronte reviewers thus commenced his article : Since thepublication of Grantley Manor wo novel has createdso much sensation as Jane Eyre. The secret ofMiss Brontes triumph is not at all obscure. Shecombined passion with power of expression. Theglow and energy of the stor\ held its readerscaptive. \ery soon there came tierce protestsagainst its unconventionality. Miss Rigby (seepage 387), in the Quarterly Review, went so faras to suggest that the writer might be a womanwho for some sufficient reason had long for-feited the society of her sex; and the XortliBritish Review followed suit by saying that ifJane Eyre be the production of a woman, she. CHARLOTTE BRONTE. From an Engraving after ihe Drawing by G. Richmond, ,by permission of Messrs Smith, Elder, & Co. must be a woman unsexed. Doubtless the bookwas unusually outspoken. The obsession of Bran-wells conduct and conversation at the time shewrote it goes further than anything else toaccount for this. There is also abundant testi-mony that her father and one or two men whovisited her home talked before her, if not toher, with as little reticence as Rochester talked toJane Eyre. Her experience of Brussels school-girls must also be reckoned. However, the mainpoint to be noted is that the subject in itselfwas absolutely unconventional. In this, as in allher novels, she describes love not from the mansbut from the womans point of view. .She lifts theveil from the love-agonies of her
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