eighteen-thirty-eight

Updated: May 12, 2025

I know there is a gulf fixed between Currer Bell and Charles Townsend, who succeeded Lord Charles Albert Florian Wellesley and the Marquis of Douro, about eighteen-thirty-eight; but it is bridged by the later Poems which show Charlotte's genius struggling through a wrong medium to the right goal. She does not know after the sojourn in Brussels she does not yet know that her right medium is prose.

May Sinclair - The Three Brontës