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Shorter, Clement King, 1857-1926

"ë and Her Circle"

_Emilia Wyndham_, _Time_, _the Avenger_,
_Mount Sorel_, and _Castle Avon_, are perhaps the best of her many
subsequent novels.
{335} _The Professor_ was published, with a brief note by Mr. Nicholls,
two years after the death of its author. _The Professor_, a Tale, by
Currer Bell, in two volumes. Smith, Elder & Co., 65 Cornhill, 1857.
{348} Lady Eastlake died in 1893.
{349} _Letters and Journals_ of Lady Eastlake, edited by her nephew,
Charles Eastlake Smith, vol. i. pp. 221, 222 (John Murray).
{350} _Life of J. G. Lockhart_, by Andrew Lang. Published by John
Nimmo. Mr. Lang has courteously permitted me to copy this letter from
his proof-sheets.
{361} Name of place is erased in original.
{373} Thus in original letter.
{398} That Thackeray had written a certain unfavourable critique of
_Shirley_.
{402} This article was by John Skelton (_Shirley_).
{403} Now in the possession of Mr. A. B. Nicholls.
{408} Thackeray writes to Mr. Brookfield, in October 1848, as
follows:--'Old Dilke of the _Athenaeum_ vows that Procter and his wife,
between them, wrote _Jane Eyre_; and when I protest ignorance, says,
"Pooh! you know who wrote it--you are the deepest rogue in England, etc."
I wonder whether it can be true? It is just possible. And then what a
singular circumstance is the + fire of the two dedications' [_Jane Eyre_
to Thackeray, _Vanity Fair_ to Barry Cornwall].


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