By a curious paradox it may be said that M. Dimnet's devotion to the Brontés ix enhanced by his detachment. The merely regional interest} in them, if quite admirable from some points of view, has introduced:
great many irrelevancies, all the more unnecessary because, while the} environment of the family was the] Yorkshire moors, their hereditary' strain traced to Ireland on the one and to Cornwall on the other.
It cannot be easy for a Frenchman to get into the spirit of these moors; and it is even more difficult for a Roman Catholic cleric like M, Dim net to understand the "uncompromis. ing" Protestantism of the Brontés, which made Charlotte, as he says, perhaps the last Englishwoman to del infancy. amazed that Char-"on Emily from her}
lotte—with all her rich imagination and her fondness for "ancient things"—was not more tolerant of]
Roman Catholic which survived her Li Chapel by Cardinal for her nothing put ety." Furthermore, he is quite! conscious of her "provincialism" generally, contrasting it with the broad culture of George Eliot, Notwithstanding all this, he displays sympathetic admiration "three poor girls made famous by their dreams, which they took the trouble to write down—poor souls bruised by, their short lives and sdviven back within themselves
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