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 Messrs. Roberts Brothers Publications.

FAMOUS WOMEN SERIES,

EMILY BRONTE.

BY A. MARY F. ROBINSON.

One vol. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00.

"Miss Robinson has written a fascinating biography.… Emily Bronte is interesting, not because she wrote Wuthering Heights, but because of her brave, baffled, human life, so lonely, so full of pain, but with a great hope shining beyond all the darkness, and a passionate defiance in bearing more than the burdens that were laid upon her. The story of the three sisters is infinitely sad, but it is the ennobling sadness that belongs to large natures cramped and striving for freedom to heroic, almost desperate, work, with little or no result. The author of this intensely interesting, sympathetic, and eloquent biography, is a young lady and a poet, to whom a place is given in a recent anthology of living English poets, which is supposed to contain only the best poems of the best writers."—Boston Daily Advertiser.

"Miss Robinson had many excellent qualifications for the task she has performed in this little volume, among which may be named, an enthusiastic interest in her subject and a real sympathy with Emily Bronte s sad and heroic life. To represent her as she was, says Miss Robinson, would be her noblest and most fitting monument.… Emily Bronte here becomes well known to us and, in one sense, this should be praise enough for any biography.—New York Times.

"The biographer who finds such material before him as the lives and characters of the Bronte family need have no anxiety as to the interest of his work. Characters not only strong but so uniquely strong, genius so supreme, misfortunes so overwhelming, set in its scenery so forlornly picturesque, could not fail to attract all readers, if told even in the most prosaic language. When we add to this, that Miss Robinson has told their story not in prosaic language, but with a literary style exhibiting all the qualities essential to good biography, our readers will understand that this life of Emily Bronte is not only as interesting as a novel, but a great deal more interesting than most novels. As it presents most vividly a general picture of the family, there seems hardly a reason for giving it Emily's name alone, except perhaps for the masterly chapters on Wuthering Heights, which the reader will find a grateful condensation of the best in that powerful but some what forbidding story. We know of no point in the Bronte history their genius, their surroundings, their faults, their happiness, their misery, their love and friend ships, their peculiarities, their power, their gentleness, their patience, their pride, which Miss Robinson has not touched upon with conscientiousness and sympathy."—The Critic.

"Emily Bronte is the second of the Famous Women Series, which Roberts Brothers, Boston, propose to publish, and of which George Eliot was the initial volume. Not the least remarkable of a very remarkable family, the personage whose life is here written, possesses a peculiar interest to all who are at all familiar with the sad and singular history of herself and her sister Charlotte. That the author, Miss A. Mary F. Robinson, has done her work with minute fidelity to facts as well as affectionate devotion to the subject of her sketch, is plainly to be seen all through the book."—Washington Post.

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