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them how one woman proved her right to a position in literature hitherto occupied by men, by filling it nobly. The Story of this rich, sad, striving, unsatisfied life, with its depths of emotion and its surface sparkling and glowing, is told tenderly and reverently by her biographers. Their praise is eulogy, and their words often seem extravagant; but they knew her well, they spoke as they felt. The character that could awaken such interest and love surely is a rare one. The above are uniformly bound in cloth, and sold separately or in sets. Sold everywhere. Mailed, post-paid, by the Publishers, ROBERTS BROTHERS, BOSTON. _Messrs. Roberts Brothers' Publications._ * * * * * FAMOUS WOMEN SERIES. 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 Advertiser._ "Miss Robinson had many excellent qualifications for the task she has performed 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 represent 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."--_New 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. Characters 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,
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