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“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting…

— Margaret Irwin

“I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that is in you. You…

— Charlotte Brontë

“-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect. - And interest? -yes, no doubt;…

— Charlotte Brontë

Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too…

— Charlotte Bronte

“As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose voice it was- replied, 'I…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Pere Silas in Villette marshals his forces with considerable skill and subtlety. Although he claims to be momentarily taken aback by the young woman…

— Marianne Thormahlen

“You think all existence lapses in as quiet a flow as that in which your youth has hitherto slid away. Floating on with closed…

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“I recalled that inward sensation I had experienced: for I could recall it, with all its unspeakable strangeness. I recalled the voice I had…

— Charlotte Brontë

“The present realist bases his work upon types. Miss Bronte took the individual individually; we now take the mass representatively. Who would call Edwar…

— Henry Bonnell

“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a matter of…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

“She picked up the book beside her. Jane Eyre. Used, bought recently in a bookshop in Camden Passage, shabby nineteenth-century binding, pages bearing vague…

— Michelle Cliff

“I have no objection whatever to your representing me as a little eccentric, since you and your learned friends would have it so; only…

— Patrick Brontë

“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of…

— Mary Lascelles