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Life of Emily Brontë: by Robinson. See also Leyland's The Brontë Family. Criticism: Essays, by L. Stephen, in Hours in a Library; by Gates, in Studies and Appreciations; by Harrison, in Early Victorian Literature; by G.B. Smith, in Poets and Novelists. Bulwer-Lytton. Life: by his son, the Earl of Lytton; by Cooper; by Ten Brink. Criticism: Essay, by W. Senior, in Essays in Fiction. Mrs. Gaskell.
Leyland's theory is that Branwell Brontë wrote the first seventeen chapters of Wuthering Heights. It has very little beyond Leyland's passionate conviction to support it. There is a passage in a letter of Branwell's to Leyland, the sculptor, written in 1845, where he says he is writing a three-volume novel of which the first volume is completed.
'It is in the next room, said he, 'but the predella is here on the next easel. I have removed it from underneath the picture to work upon. 'The head of Ruth has been taken out, said my mother, turning to me: 'but isn't it like an old master? You ought to see the marvellous Pre-Raphaelite pictures at Mr. Graham's and Mr. Leyland's, Henry.
He could hardly have done Branwell a worse service. Branwell's letters give us a vivid idea of the sort of manuscripts that would be produced, in inn-parlours, from his hat. As for his verse that formless, fluent gush of sentimentalism it might have passed as an error of his youth, but for poor Leyland's comments on its majesty and beauty.
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