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    NOTICES OE BOOKS. 4.15

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    and a craving the limpse for a wider of the and outer more world activ she e life had was seen at work doubtless withi did n her its ,

    g 1 part This in exciting to this be craving a suitable . lace for remarking on a few of the p

    salient p appears oints in Miss Bronte's character and previous life . _^ We have sketched in rough outline the circumstances which acted equall ent which y on

    all three of the sisters , and some peculiarities of temperam distinguished the two younger ; it remains for us to note down any striking traits that were peculiar to Charlotte . Exteriorly h she was

    feeble plain ; . very This small we notice and very because thin , short her - consciousness sighted , altogether of thi p s ysicall lack of y beautyand her mental exaggeration thereofmaterially affected her

    , , sive character , this . consciousness Acting on a deepened disposition into naturall a morbid y shy self , sensitive -depreciation , and pen . At - attract

    ing one the time affection she looked of others upon herself , hopeless as of a P symp ariah ath , incapable y , distrustful afterwards of of any

    advances made to her . That theoretically she came to see heroines the falsity for of her this novels view and of want her defence of beaut of y that , her choice choosing to her of sister plain s ,

    are sufficient proof ; but , practically she could never wholly surmount the weaknessAnother depressing hase through which she passed

    . p Thus was that beneath of reli her g weakness ious melanchol an under y ; current this she of entirel streng y th overcame was con- .

    powerful s stantl _alf-depreci , y flowing talents ation which ther Nothing e in was the alw could end ays cleared an destroy inner its it appreci own ; discouragement path ation . B of eneat her h after own her

    . discouragement left it intact ; she only returned with renewed efforts to shows try for itself the in success her which lainings was of to its be . long Pier delay expectancy — " I shall of success soon

    comp , dream be thirty and , and I have little done use have nothing I ever yet made ;"— " of My it youth . " From is g _* one an like early a

    age she , , was aw very are that she had ideas worth expressing , and sought for failed means One to express can fancy them the . unskilful She tried draug to htswoman do this by essay the ing pencil vainl , and y to

    thoug Very reveal . p hts ainful such which glorious is imperativel dumbness imag , inings of demand whatever as Jane to kind be Eyre clothed ; very shows in painful to some Rochester to sort have of .

    y speech , and to have no speech in whieli to clothe them . Or one can fancy _lier copying stroke by stroke microscopic line the -engravings utteran , as of

    own another Lucy . _Sn , Her o and we labor did hop ; ing imitatin over thus these g to parrot gain minute -wis by © practice drawings , as it were an , together , utterance with of ce her tie

    minuteness of her writing and of her needle-work , seriously injured her at the always time weak when si Mr ght Bronte . A little 's before began the " to Professor be affected " was she written feared ,

    and that to she restrict was going herself " blind . from , and many was eyes obli sources ged to of take pleasure great . , precautions This fear

    must have weighed terribly on her spirits . She was naturally de-

    Notices Oe Books. 4.15

    NOTICES OE BOOKS . 4 . 15

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/55/