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From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Date: 20040416
Author:Elkins, Mary J.
Byline: Mary J. Elkins, Special To The News
When Charlotte Bronte died in 1855 at the age of 39, she left behind some distinguished work: many poems and four finished novels (three published during her lifetime), including Jane Eyre.
She also left behind several fragments of novels which she may or may not have intended to finish. One of these fragments, 20 or so pages entitled Emma, has now been taken up and built upon by the Irish novelist, Clare Boylan.
Boylan uses the fragment as the first two chapters of the work she now calls Emma Brown. She treats Bronte's work ...
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