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On My Nightstand
From: Concord Monitor
Date: 20060101
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Emma Brown: A Novel from the Unfinished Manuscript by Charlotte Bronte, by Clare Boylan (Viking Penguin 2003)
Emma Brown, by Clare Boylan, both intrigues and delights. Boylan boldly completes a story begun by Charlotte Bronte in the mid-1800s. It is the story of a seemingly privileged young girl left at a boarding school by a gentleman who promptly disappears. There is an obvious mystery behind the identity of this "consummately unhappy child,"but the mistresses of the school have no interest in mystery, only in the fees that have stopped coming. Emma is soon taken in by the kind ...
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