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'[she thinks her own writing] was almost always imitation of what I had read. I realised the immense difference between Charlotte's work and my own. Charlotte [d'Erlanger], I think was a born writer: forceful, economical and with a real eye. The [italics] quality [end italics] of her work showed through all the ignorance of childhood.'