NOVELIST'S LOVE AFFAIR.
AN UNREQUITED FASSION. CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND HEGER. LONDON. July 20. The British Museum has acquired four letters from Charlotte Bronte to Professor Heger. who is Paul Emanuel in "Villette." These prove that the suggested scandal attaching to Charlotte Bronte in thi = i-otineetion is untrue. The are in French, and dated July and October, 1544, and January and November. lS4n. They display a warm gratitude for him as her master in literature, together with r. passionate protest against his grudging acceptance of her devotion.
The letter suggests that "Willette" was written to justify herself with M. Heger. Tbe great novelist was a pupil for nearly a year at the Pensionnat Heger. in Brussels, winning the admiration of 11. Heger. the principal teacher, whose wife was at the head of th«- establishment. She returned afterwards to the same institution as a governess, and in this period she undoubtedly widened her intellectual sphere by reading the many books on French literature that were lent her by M. Heger.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 5
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NOVELIST'S LOVE AFFAIR.
Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 180, 30 July 1913, Page 5
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