...; hence it ensued, that we were mutually ignorant of the progress we might respectively have made. One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on a SIS. volume of verse in my sister Emily's handwriting. Of course, I was not surprised, knowing that...

...in 1850—a piece of writing unique, as far as I know, in its pathos and its power—she Bays:— " One day in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted...looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me—a deop conviction that these were, not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally...

...all the sisters, and respecting the origin of which Charlotte thus writes— " One day in the antnmn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume of...hand-writing. Of course I was not surprised, knowing that she oonld and did write verse. I looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me,—a deep conviction...

...relieve a burdened heart. " One day," writes Charlotte in 1850, recollecting the near, vanished past, "one day in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on a manuscript volume of verse in my sister Emily's handwriting. Of course I was not surprised, knowing...

...One day,' writes Charlotte, ' one day in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally alighted on a manuscript volume of verse in my sister Emily's handwriting....deep conviction that these were not common effusions, not at all like the poetry women generally write. I thought them condensed and terse, vigorous and...

...unoccupied ere they also entered upon its pursuit. ' One day, in the autumn of 1845,' says Charlotte, ' 1 accidentally lighted on a MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily's handwriting.' The elder ' sister was not surprised, knowing that the younger could and did write verse ; but she...

...hasumiver shoo wur so timid, shoo cudn't frame to let it aat." A. MARY F. ROBINSON : ' Emily Bronte.' One day in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted...my sister Emily's handwriting. Of course, I was not sur°tt££-°foide P"sed, knowing that she could and did Poems* write verse : I looked it over, and...

...hence it ensued, that we •were mutually ignorant of the progress we might respectively have made. One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted...looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me,—a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally...

...; hence, it ensued, that we were mutually ignorant of the progress we might respectively have made. One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume of verse in my sister 1 This preface was written in 1850; it is dated September 19th of that year. Emily died on December...

...when Charlotte wrote by way of preface to the second edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey— ' One day in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted...looked it over, and something more than surprise seized me—a deep conviction that these were not common effusions, nor at all like the poetry women generally...