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How Bronte sisters' novels gradually gained respect.

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From: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
Date: 20040128
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Byline: Charles Matthews

``The Bronte Myth'' by Lucasta Miller; Knopf ($26.95)

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You probably think of "Jane Eyre" as the kind of novel you'd feel safe in recommending to a 12-year-old girl (if you know a 12-year-old girl who'd read a novel about a Victorian governess instead of the latest dish about Paris Hilton).

But as the British critic Lucasta Miller tells us in her provocative history of the reputation of the Bronte sisters and their work, when Charlotte Bronte's novel was published in 1847, readers were shocked, shocked by it (which means, naturally, ...

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