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Life of Charlotte Bront - Volume 1
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ISBN10: 1153744090
ISBN13: 9781153744096
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781153744096
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ...of writing for the love of fame; for the selfish excitement of emulation. You kindly allow me to write poetry for its own sake, provided I leave undone nothing which I ought to do, in order to pursue that single, absorbing, exquisite gratification. I am afraid, sir, you think me very foolish. I know the first letter I wrote to you was all senseless trash from beginning to end; but I am not altogether the idle dreaming being it would seem to denote. My father is a clergyman of limited, though competent income, and I am the eldest of his children. He expended quite as much in my education as he could afford in justice to the rest. I thought it therefore my duty, when I left school, to become a governess. In that capacity I find enough to occupy my thoughts all day long, and my head and hands too, without having a moment
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