Excerpt from Heroines of Fiction, Vol. 2 HE interest felt in the novels of the Bronte sisters was from the first intensely personal, and it grew more and more personal, as the veil was lifted from their pathetic lives, and the close relation between what they had written and what they had been was seen. In the average unliterary mind the relation between the author and his work is always a thhg to be taken for granted. He is identified with this or that person in the fiction, and if the reader of average unliterary mind has the chance of speaking to himabout his story, he will say, There, Where the girl comes to you, and you tell'ber, or the like. Sometimes this is amusing, and sometimes it is dismaying in any case it is useless for the author to protest; and It is not very good busi ness for him to do so. The average unliterary reader loves him and his work, according as he finds him per sonally In it, or believes he finds him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.