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""This analytical book was really enlightening as well as compelling; being jam-packed with interesting and well-researched points. It allowed me to more deeply understand the inner workings of Bronte's thoughts and personality as provides extracts from her personal letters and works she wrote in her childhood as young as 16. Overall, I would definitely recommend anyone who enjoyed 'Jane Eyre' as it helps illustrate how Bronte was influenced by her own experiences and reading and how this impacted upon her own writing. Also, if you study Charlotte Bronte at any point (like myself) it would be a real use for essays etc."" **** -goodreads reviewer ""This is the most intriguing, thought-provoking & surprising book I've ever read. It is helpful for the reader to have previous knowledge of the cultural background used by Elizabeth Imlay in constructing her argument. If you don't have this, take time to read up on it (using the book's bibliography.)All who are interested in how Bronte's own reading, cultural milieu & personal experience worked with her intellect and creative imagination to produce the great classic 'Jane Eyre', will find this study rewarding. Fresh insight, indeed, and highly original scholarship."" **** - goodreads reviewer

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Elizabeth Imlay, MA Oxon, was born into a Freethinking family, her father being a classical scholar and her mother a linguist. She was educated at a school for the daughters of Evangelical missionaries, where she obtained a thorough grounding in the Bible, French and Latin. She read English Language and Literature at Oxford, which at that time demanded a knowledge of French, Latin, Anglo-Saxon and Middle and Modern English. She has worked in publishing and journalism and is now a widow with two grown-up children.

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