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SOLD SISTERS
From: Artforum
Date: 20040401
Author:Prose, Francine
SOLD SISTERS Francine Prose on the Brontes THE BRONTE MYTH BY LUCASTA MILLER NEW YORK: KNOPF. 368 PAGES. $27.
In 1932, Rebecca West published an essay about Charlotte Bronte that remains one of the most eloquent appreciations ever written by one author about another. West expressed her profound sympathy-born, doubtless, of common experience-with Bronte's perpetual need to scramble in order to support herself and her family, a pressure that affected, and may even have distorted, her art. Throughout her article, West applauds the courage that inspired her literary predecessor to tell
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