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“How many girls’ schools have expelled you?' 'This is number six,' Emma volunteered.' Papa, is Maria going to Paris? Is she?' 'No, Emma, nor anywhere else on the Continent. But she is going _somewhere_, to be sure.”

Humor School Victorian Bronte Brontes

Book:The Misses Brontë's Establishment

Source: The Misses Brontë's Establishment

“...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeling as if I, who never yet truly lived, were at last about to taste life.”

Hope Charlotte Bronte Brontes

Book:Villette

Source: Villette

“The dry yellow heath of the moors rose around us on all sides. It was like walking on the sun.”

Moors Bronte Brontes Haworth

Book:The Misses Brontë's Establishment

Source: The Misses Brontë's Establishment

“The large, gaping flaws in the construction of the stories--mad wives in the attic, strange apparitions in Belgium--are a representation of the life she could not face; these gothic subterfuges represent the mind at a breaking point, frantic to find any way out. If the flaws are only to be attributed to the practicce of popular fiction of the time, we cannot then explain the large amount of genuine feeling that goes into them. They stand for the hidden wishes of an intolerable life.”

Writing Brontes

Book:Seduction and Betrayal

Source: Seduction and Betrayal

“It was somehow fitting that the true beginning and the end of a life occurred in the same sacred house. Anne would have praised God and Emily would have laughed. On this day, their presence was fully with me, and I am sure that Charlotte—now kissing the man she loved despite everything the world had thrown at her—felt the same twined souls invisibly at her side.”

Emily Bronte Charlotte Bronte Anne Bronte Brontes

Book:The Misses Brontë's Establishment

Source: The Misses Brontë's Establishment