Novels of the Sisters Bronte; The Life of Charlotte Bronte, by E. C. Gaskell Introduction and Notes by Temple Scott and B. W. Willett (Without General (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ... - CHAPTER VIII. Charlotte as teacher at Miss Wooler's school--Emily's home-sickness--Letters indicative of Charlotte's despondency and melancholy--The sisters at home--Winter evenings at Haworth--Charlotte writes to Southey, and Branwell to Wordsworth--Branwell's letter and verses--Prospect of losing the society of a friend--Charlotte's correspondence with Southey--Letter written in a state of despondency--Accident to the old servant, and characteristic kindness of the Brontes--Symptoms of illness in Anne Bronte--Charlotte's first proposal of marriage--Charlotte and Anne go out as governesses--Experiences of governess life--Advent of the first Curate at Haworth--A second proposal of marriage--A visit to the sea-side. On the 29th of July, 1835, Charlotte, now little more than nineteen years old, went as teacher to Miss Wooler's. Emily accompanied her as a pupil; but she became literally ill from home-sickness, and could not settle to anything, and after passing only three months at Roe Head, returned to the parsonage and the beloved moors. Miss Bronte gives the following reasons as those which prevented Emily's remaining at school, and caused the substitution of her younger sister in her place at Miss Wooler's: --"My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her;--out of a sullen hollow in a livid hill-side, her mind could make an Eden. She found in the bleak solitude many and dear delights; and not the least and best-loved was--liberty. Liberty was the breath of Emily's nostrils; without it she perished. The change from her own home to a school, and from her own very noiseless, very secluded, but unrestricted and unartificial mode of life, to one of disciplined routine (though under...