“I describe imperfect characters. Every character in this book will be found to be more or less imperfect, my pen refusing to draw anything in the model line.”

— Charlotte Brontë , book Shirley

Source: Shirley (1849), Ch. 5: Hollow's Cottage

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English novelist and poet 1816–1855

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