their
time. The thinkers soar beyond the common herd, whose soul-wings are not
strong enough to fly aloft to clearer atmospheres, and consequently they
censure or ridicule what they are powerless to reach. George Sand, even
to a greater extent than her contemporary, George Eliot, was a victim to
ignorant social prejudices, but even the conservative world was forced
to recognize the matchless genius of these two extraordinary women, each
widely different in her character and method of thought and writing....
She has told much that is good which has been untold, and just what will
interest the reader, and no more, in the same easy, entertaining style
that characterizes all of these unpretentious biographies."--_Hartford
Times._

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EMILY BRONTE.

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"Miss Robinson had many excellent qualifications for the task she has
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Bronte here becomes well known to us and, in one sense, this should be
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"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