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M. Thackeray), who rarely waited, waiting with us; our governess and my sister and I all in a row, and prepared for the great event. We saw the carriage stop, and out of it sprang the active, well-knit figure of young Mr. George Smith, who was bringing Miss Brontë to see our father. My father, who had been walking up and down the room, goes out into the hall to meet his guests, and then after a moment’s delay the door opens wide, and the two gentlemen come in, leading a tiny, delicate, serious, little lady, pale, with fair straight hair, and steady eyes.

Anne Ritchie, “My Witches’ Caldron,” Macmillan’s Magazine, February 1891, pp. 251–252 William Wright (1893) Dr. indd 20 6/17/08 6:26:51 PM 21 Personal takes many creative liberties in its treatment of the family. He claims that the particular flavor of the Brontës’ genius is derived from the family’s Irish heritage. The following excerpt romanticizes the family’s collective enthusiasm for storytelling with an intimacy that we have to question. QQQ Story-telling, as we shall see, was a hereditary gift in the Brontë family, and Patrick (Charlotte’s father) inherited it from his father.

In particular Stephen construes a fragile psyche informing Brontë’s literature, arguing that the “feverish disquiet” that marks her style extends from her emotional fragility. ” Stephen’s reading of Jane Eyre is clearly dated in its remarks on the appeal of Mr.  . indd 13 6/17/08 6:26:50 PM 14 Charlotte Brontë from without, her most esoteric teaching, the most accurate reflex from her familiar idiosyncrasy, is of course to be found in the characters painted from within. We may infer her personality more or less accurately from the mode in which she contemplates her neighbours, but it is directly manifested in various avatars of her own spirit.

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