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J. P. Browne : 'A Phrenological Estimate of the Talents and Dispositions of a Lady'

Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 2 July 1851, on J. P. Browne's phrenological analysis of her:

'I send back Mr Fraser's [pseudonym assumed by Browne] character by return of post; but I have found time to take a careful and exact copy of the same, which (D.V.) I mean to keep always [...] With the exception of that slight mistake between number and music, and the small vein of error which flows thence through the character, it is a sort of miracle — like — like — like as the very life itself.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Manuscript: Unknown

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