I've just started reading Charlotte Bronte's SHIRLEY, and I'm enjoying it very much; and I must say: aren't those 3 Curates: who are described at the start of the story: such obnoxious Nit-Wits!
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I've just started reading Charlotte Bronte's SHIRLEY, and I'm enjoying it very much; and I must say: aren't those 3 Curates: who are described at the start of the story: such obnoxious Nit-Wits!
I have not read it, but I listened to someone say that Elizabeth Gaskell's biography mentions the three real-life curates the characters were based on. I think they were a bit annoyed at first, but then started referring to each other by their fictional names.