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This mania for scribbling wasn't an unusual activity for literary middle- or upper-class children in nineteenth-century England (many poorer kids were working at a young age, including Charles Dickens, who pasted labels onto jars at Warren's Shoeblacking factory and warehouse when he was twelve years old and his father was in debtor's prison). In the late eighteenth century, young Jane Austen filled the beautiful notebooks her father had bo..
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We can never know if Charlotte and Ellen had a sexual relationship--there is certainly no proof that they did--and perhaps it doesn't matter. Their correspondence attests to a fervent love that included romantic, and perhaps even erotic, feelings. It's likely that Charlotte had heard of women who took women as lovers or "wives," such as fellow Yorkshirewoman Anne Lister, or perhaps even knew some. 38"
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Emily, now twenty-seven, and Anne, twenty-five, even pretended to be characters from their fantasyland, "escaping from the palace of instruction" while on a train to York at the end of June."
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