Messrs, Roberts Brothers' Publications. 

 FAMOUS WOMEN SEEIES. 



EMILY BRONTE. 



By a. MARY F. ROBINSON. 

 One vol. 16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.00. 



" Miss Robinson has written a fascinating biography. . . . Emily Bronte is 

 interesting, not because she wrote ' Wuthering Heights,' but because of her 

 brave, baffled, human life, so lonely, so full of pain, but with a great hope shining 

 beyond all the darkness, and a passionate defiance in bearing more than the 

 burdens that were laid upon her. The story of the three sisters is infinitely sad, 

 but it is the ennobling sadness that belongs to large natures cramped and striving 

 for freedom to heroic, almost desperate, work, with little or no result. The author 

 of this intensely interesting, sympathetic, and eloquent biography, is a young lady 

 and a poet, to whom a place is given in a recent anthology of living English poets, 

 which is supposed to contain only the best poems of the best writers." — Boston 

 Daily A dvertiser. 



"Miss Robinson had many excellent qualifications for the task she has per- 

 formed in this little volume, among which may be named, an enthusiastic interest 

 in her subject and a real sympathy with Emily Bronte's sad and heroic life. 'To 

 rej^resent her as she was,' says Miss Robinson, ' would be her noblest and most 

 fitting monument.' . . . Emily Bronte here becomes well known to us and, in one 

 sense, this should be praise enough for any biography." — Neiv York Times. 



" 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. Char- 

 acters not only strong but so uniquely strong, genius so supreme, misfortunes so 

 overwhelming, set in its scenery so forlornly picturesque, could not fail to attract 

 all readers, if told even in the most prosaic language. When we add to this, that 

 Miss Robinson has told their story not in prosaic language, but with a literary 

 style exhibiting all the qualities essential to good biography, our readers will 

 understand that this life of Emily Bronte is not only as interesting as a novel, but 

 a great deal more interesting than most novels. As it presents most vividly a 

 general picture of the family, there seems hardly a reason for giving it Emily's name 

 alone, except perhaps for the masterly chapters on ' Wuthering Heights,' which 

 the reader will find a grateful condensation of the best in that powerful but some- 

 what forbidding story. We know of no point in. the Bronte history — their genius, 

 their surroundings, their faults, their happiness, their misery, their love and friend- 

 ships, their peculiarities, their power, their gentleness, their patience, their pride, 

 — which Miss Robinson has not touched upon with conscientiousness and sym- 

 pathy." — The Critic. 



" ' Emily Bronte ' is the second of the ' Famous Women Series,' which Roberts 

 Brothers, Boston, propose to publish, and of which ' George Eliot ' was the initial 

 volume. Not the least remarkable of a very remarkable family, the personage 

 whose life is here written, possesses a peculiar interest to all who are at all familiar 

 with the sad and singular history of herself and her sister Charlotte. That the 

 author. Miss A. Mary F. Robinson, has done her work with minute fidelity to 

 facts as well as affectionate devotion to the subject of her sketch, is plainly to be 

 seen all through the book." — IVashifigton Post. 



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