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In 1839 at the age of 22 Charlotte Brontë resolved to forsake the imaginative world of Angria:
Yet do not urge me too fast reader: it is not easy to dismiss from my imagination the images which have filled it so long. … Still, I long to quit for awhile that burning clime where we have sojourned too long - its skies flame - the glow of sunset is always upon it - the mind would cease from excitement and turn now to a cooler region where the dawn breaks grey and sober, and the coming day for a time at least is subdued by clouds.1
In delineating male character I labour under disadvantages: intuition and theory will not always adequately supply the place of observation and experience. When I write about women I am sure of my ground - in the other case, I am not so sure. (LL II 312)
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Notes
Fannie Ratchford and William De Vane (eds), Legends of Angria (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1933), p. 316.
Helene Moglen, Charlotte Brontë: the Self Conceived (New York, Norton, 1976), p. 88.
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Nestor, P. (1987). The Professor. In: Charlotte Brontë. Women Writers. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18612-9_3
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