Charlotte Bronte At Home (Paperback)

PREFATORY simple narrative of the domestic life of Charlotte Bronte is as careful and patient as conscience and affection could make it. When practicable, I verified by personal investigation what I had heard and read. When dependent upon information received from others, I consulted what seemed to me the ablest authorities upon a subject which has been treated by many, with more or less skill. To no other published work upon the Bronte family am I so much indebted as to the most interesting volume lately issued by Professor Clement K. Shorter under the title of Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle. It is candid, scholarly, and comprehensive, and to it my final appeal was made when other biographers differed as to leading facts, or were confusing in details. It has taken its place and will hold it as a...