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monsieur, — I am well aware that it is not my turn to write to you, but as Mrs Wheelwright is going to Brussels1 and is kind enough to Each Young Lady to be provided with One Pair of Sheets, Pillow Cases, Four Towels, a Dessert and Tea-spoon. take charge of a letter — it seems to me that I ought not to neglect so favourable an opportunity of writing to you.
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In fairness to the Hegers, both had tried to warn Charlotte against the extravagant and emotional statements she was committing to paper. M. Heger’s kindliness toward Charlotte was essentially the same as that offered to other bright students he had encountered. Charlotte’s determination to be heard and answered manifested itself in a number of ways that the Hegers could not help but find potentially embarrassing. The series of rebuffs from both Hegers that she suffered, therefore, created an emotional crisis, doubtless the most severe of her life; no account of Charlotte’s life can fail to take into account this stormy passage. For a sympathetic but judicious treatment of the important events of 1842–4, see Winifred Gérin’s Charlotte Brontë: The Evolution of Genius (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967).
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Orel, H. (1997). Charlotte Brontë, [‘Four Letters to M. Heger’] (1844–1845), in The Shakespeare Head Brontë, vol. ii, pp. 11–14, 18–19, 23–4, 69–71. In: Orel, H. (eds) The Brontës. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25199-5_17
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