...novels of the Victorian age. She might have learned this art, had she not died at the age of thirty. " Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone," wrote Charlotte Bronte of her sister Emily. Among the other authors who deserve mention for one or...

...after the danger was over. Charlotte, writing of her in the biographical sketch, says that she was " stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone." Arnold wrote that her soul — " Knew no fellow for might, Passion, vehemence, grief, Daring, since...

...Yet, while physically she perished, mentally she grew stronger than we had yet known her. Day by day when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I...stood alone. The awful point was, that while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh; from the trembling...

...Yet, while physically she perished, mentally she grew stronger than we had yet known her. Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I...stood alone. The awful point was, that while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity ; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh; from the trembling...

...period when Wuthering Heights was composed. Charlotte uses these characteristically Victorian terms: "Stronger than a man. simpler than a child, her nature...stood alone. The awful point was, that, while full of ruth for others, on herself she had no pity; the spirit was inexorable to the flesh." "Biographical...

...usual constraints that govern Charlotte's and her contemporary audience's conception of the feminine: 'I have never seen her parallel in anything. Stronger...man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone' (WH, 35). Charlotte Bronte's inability to understand and account for her sister's life and work in...

...physically she perished, mentally she grew stronger than we had yet known her. I've seen nothing like it. Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone. (To EMILY:) Sister, you've sat there all the day, Come to the hearth awhile; The wind so wildly sweeps...

...admiration and incomprehension, by her sister Charlotte in her Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell: Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone. . . . In Emily's nature the extremes of vigour and simplicity seemed to meet. Under an unsophisticated...

...distorted one. There must have been a fund of ferocity in her own nature strangely mingled with tenderness. 'Stronger than a man, simpler than a child, her nature stood alone.' So says her sister. She could not tolerate the contact of other wills. Isolation became a necessary...

...Yet while physically she perished, mentally, she grew stronger than we had yet known her. Day by day, when I saw with what a front she met suffering, I...indeed, I have never seen her parallel in anything.' Emily's end came swiftly between late October and midDecember 1848. Charlotte could not accept, or...