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Clare Boylan
From: Yorkshire Post
Date: 20060520
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Author completed Charlotte Bronte novel
CLARE Boylan, who died of ovarian cancer on Tuesday aged 58, was a short-story writer, journalist and novelist who completed an unfinished novel by Charlotte Bronte.
When Charlotte died in 1855 she had written the first two chapters of a new novel, Emma, later published in the Cornhill Magazine.
The narrator is Mrs Chalfont, a prosperous widow "neither young nor yet old", whose neighbours, the snobbish Misses Wilcox, have a school at which a gentleman deposits his young daughter, Matilda. This plain, silent and expensively dressed heiress is treated ...
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