The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2Leyland, Francis A.
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The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2
Leyland, Francis A.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography; Brontë family; Brontë, Patrick Branwell, 1817-1848
At the end of July, Charlotte, as we have been told, consulted her
brother as to the reason why Messrs. Smith and Elder, to whom she had
sent 'The Professor,' did not reply. He at once set it down to her not
having enclosed a postage stamp. On the 2nd of August, she wrote
again, and promptly received the considerate answer which encouraged
her to send to them, on the twenty-fourth of the same month, her
three-volume work, 'Jane Eyre.' This was accepted, and given to the
world in the following October. Meanwhile, in the beginning of August,
'E.' had paid her visit to the parsonage, and the friends had enjoyed
the glorious weather in walking on the moors. Charlotte had returned
the visit almost immediately, and the proofs of 'Jane Eyre' were
corrected by her during her absence, sitting even at the same table
with her friend, to whom, curiously enough, she said not a word about
the work in hand. Upon her return to Haworth, she wrote: 'I reached
home, and found all well. Thank God for it.' 'Wuthering Heights' and
'Agnes Grey' still lingered in the hands of the publisher, from whom
the authors had obtained but impoverishing terms; 'a bargain,' says
Mrs. Gaskell, in mentioning the circumstance, 'to be alluded to
further.' Nothing more, however, appears in the 'Life of Charlotte' on
the subject; and we may hope that the celebrity which the novels of
the 'Messrs. Bell' soon acquired, made a substantial difference in the
first terms of the agreement. During the next three months, Charlotte
was in correspondence with Messrs. Smith and Elder, Mr. G. H. Lewes,
and Mr. W. S. Williams, in respect of the reviews of 'Jane Eyre,'
which were then appearing.
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