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Boylan, Clare. Emma Brown.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
From: Kliatt
Date: 20051101
Author:Power, Penelope
BOYLAN, Clare. Emma Brown. Penguin. 450p. c2003. 0-14-303483-9. $14.00. JSA
When Charlotte Bronte died, in 1855, she left behind a two-chapter manuscript of an unfinished novel. The plot may sound familiar to Bronte readers and to admirers of Victorian fiction. Bronte's narrator is Mrs. Chalfont, a sympathetic onlooker. The first two chapters take place in Fuchsia Lodge, a girls finishing school run by the Wilcox sisters who, through no fault of their own, have fallen on hard times. They have few pupils, little money and grand pretensions. One day they are visited by a ...
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