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I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express. - Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

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Charlotte Bronte
Age: 38 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 21
Died: 1855
Died: March 31
Novelist
Poet
Thornton
West Yorkshire
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Ш. Бронте
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Шарлотта Бронте
Sharlotta Bronte
Charles Wellesley
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Karlotta Bronte
Mrs. Arthur Bell Nicholls
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Lord Charles Albert
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Mrs. A. B. Nicholls
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I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal--as we are!
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