The Brontës (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Brontës There is no doubt that the Brontës were a very eccentric family. "Do not underrate her oddity, " was the advice given by a friend of Charlotte Bronte to Sir Wemyss Reid when he was writing his Monograph of the novelist. But nobody who writes about the Brontes to-day is likely to underrate their oddities: far likelier is it, as literary taste and standards alter with the years, that the Bronte genius will come to be underrated. Are there any people still living to remember the "rush for copies" of Jane Eyre, or the intensity of feeling produced by Villette? The big sales are to-day of novels of a very different order: Charlotte Bronte and her family have taken their place, once for all, among the literary enthusiasms of a bygone age. Genius, eccentricity and disease too often, as we know, dwell together, but surely never did they keep closer company than under the roof of that old stone parsonage at Ha worth, on the windswept Yorkshire moors. The genius and the eccentricity seem to have come from the Irish, peasant-born father and the line of wild-blooded, rhapsodic Celts behind him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.