She once told her sisters that they were wrong — even morally wrong — in making their heroines beautiful as a matter of course. They replied that it was impossible to make a heroine interesting on any other terms. The Book Buyer - Página 4201890Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 352 páginas
...heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, ' I will prove to you that you are wrong ; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours.' Hence 'Jane Eyre,' said she in telling the anecdote:... | |
| 1857 - 542 páginas
...that it was a mistake to make a heroine always handsome. ' I will prove to you that ' you are wrong ; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small ' as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours.' When once in the train of the story she wrote... | |
| 1857 - 850 páginas
...sisters, that it was a mistake to make heroine always handsome. " I will prove to you that you are wrong ; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours." When once in the train of the story she wrote... | |
| Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 páginas
...heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, ' I will prove to you that you are wrong ; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be M interesting as any of yours.' Hence ' Jane Eyre,' said abe in telling the aneedote... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1873 - 492 páginas
...heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, ' I will prove to you that you are wrong ; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours. Hence " Jane Eyre," said she, in telling the anecdote... | |
| Charles Bruce - 1875 - 636 páginas
...a heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, " I will prove to you that you are wrong; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours." H ence fane Eyre, said she in telling the anecdote... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 412 páginas
...a heroine interesting on any other terms. My answer was, ' I will prove to you that you are wrong ; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours.' Hence ' Jane Eyre ' ; but she is not myself,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 páginas
...a heroine interesting on any other terms. My answer was, ' I will prove to you that you are wrong ; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours.' Hence ' Jane Eyre ' ; but she is not myself,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 420 páginas
...way could they be rendered interesting, she answered : — " I will prove to you that you are wrong ; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours." Hence "Jane Eyre," who, however, must not be... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1884 - 242 páginas
...a heroine interesting on any other terms. My answer was, " I will prove to you that you are wrong ; I will show you a heroine as plain and as small as myself, who shall be as interesting as any of yours." Hence " Jane Eyre," but she is not myself, any... | |
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