Phillips, under the pseudonym of
'January Searle,' wrote a readable biography of Wordsworth.
{145a} Charlotte writes from Dewsbury Moor (October 2, 1836):--'My
sister Emily is gone into a situation as teacher in a large school of
near forty pupils, near Halifax. I have had one letter from her since
her departure--it gives an appalling account of her duties. Hard labour
from six in the morning until near eleven at night, with only one
half-hour of exercise between. This is slavery. I fear she will never
stand it.'--Mrs. Gaskell's _Life_.
{145b} _Haworth Churchyard_, _April_ 1855, by Matthew Arnold. Macmillan
& Co.
{158} See chap. xiii., page 346.
{159} A dog, referred to elsewhere as Flossie, junior.
{161} It was sent to Mr. Williams on six half-sheets of note-paper and
was preserved by him.
{163} Although _Jane Eyre_ has been dramatised by several hands, the
play has never been as popular as one might suppose from a story of such
thrilling incident. I can find no trace of the particular version which
is referred to in this letter, but in the next year the novel was
dramatised by John Brougham, the actor and dramatist, and produced in New
York on March 26, 1849. Brougham is rather an interesting figure. An
Irishman by birth, he had a chequered experience of every phase of
theatrical life both in London and New York.
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