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Her literature expressed what her life suppressed. This would seem to be the information we receive on comparing the various biographies with the fiction. Love requited and professional ambition fulfilled: in all four novels - The Professor, Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette - Bronte treats her heroines to the rewards that life had denied her at the time of their writing. (It would have been interesting to see how the apparently happily married Bronte tackled the subject of love and married life if she had lived to complete the fragment of her last novel, Emma.)
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© 1991 Ruth Parkin-Gounelas
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Parkin-Gounelas, R. (1991). Charlotte Brontë and the Imagination: A Secret and Sworn Allegiance. In: Fictions of the Female Self. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378254_3
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