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9) was the authoress of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Agnes Grey (1848)。 She had not the intellectual force of her sisters。 The novels of Charlotte especially created a strong impression from the first; and the published of Jane Eyre gave rise to much curiosity and speculation as to its authorship。 Their strength and originality have retained for them a high place in English fiction which is likely to prove permanent。 There is a biography of Charlotte by Mrs。 Gaskell (q。v。)。

Emily Bront? (1818…1848)。—Novelist and poet。 Sister to Charlotte

and Anne

。 Wrote a story of extraordinary reality and imagination in Wuthering Heights; in whose pages the Yorkshire moors are given a wild and tragic personal reality。 The same emotional force marks the best of her poems; though written with an apparently heedless pen for her own relief。

Preface

A preface to the first edition of “Jane Eyre” being unnecessary; I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark。

My thanks are due in three quarters。

To the Public; for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions。

To the Press; for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant。

To my Publishers; for the aid their tact; their energy; their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unremended Author。

The Press and the Public are but vague personifications