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(Literary Gazette.)
"These volumes supply ample information respecting the author of 'Jane Eyre.' The life itself possesses a tearful interest, that deepens as it advances towards its close. It is singularly touching, and sinks into the heart of the reader."
(Examiner.)
"We can be sincere in our praise of this book, and must not part from it without saying how often we have been touched by the tone of loving sympathy in which it is written, and how keenly, in the chapters dwelling upon events distant enough to be as much studied as felt, we have enjoyed the acute perception of those points which are most characteristic of a life—the well-timed production from a store of materials of that anecdote or fragment which tells what needs most to be told with the most perfect clearness and in fewest words."
(British Quarterly Review.)
"The story of this remarkable woman, told with such deep and simple pathos by her gifted and affectionate biographer, is as interesting as the tale of a second 'Jane Eyre.' The memoir has almost the charm of an autobiography; for in the half-unconscious revelations of the letters written to her friends, we may trace the formation of her peculiar intellectual power."
(National Review.)
"We echo the universal opinion as to the skill with which a difficult work has been executed, and an absorbing interest given to the narrative Whatever can be derived from sequence of events, external description, and such indications of personal character as letters afford, is furnished in the fullest abundance. The biographer's command of language, and her talent of description at once powerful and delicate, enable her to depict with wondrous vividness the scenes in which this painful and secluded drama of life was presented, and the conditions under which it was played out to its melancholy close."
LONDON; SMITH, ELDER & CO., 65, CORNHILL.
