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It is evidently in the Brontës’ published works that the treatment of nature presents the greatest interest. But any study of the subject must involve some preliminary concern with the juvenilia, that “web of sunny air” which the parsonage family began to weave in childhood and whose folds ultimately encompassed so wide an area. Into their juvenilia the Brontës poured all the preoccupations and the passions of their imaginative childhood and their ardent youth.
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Read by them in a translation of Galland’s French text of 1706. See W. Gérin, Charlotte Brontë (Oxford, 1967) p. 26.
The references are to Pendle Hill and Boulsworth Hill. See Charlotte Brontë, Five Novelettes, ed. W. Gérin (London, 1971), notes on pp. 202, 212.
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Duthie, E.L. (1986). Nature in the Juvenilia. In: The Brontës and Nature. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18373-9_2
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