S The Secret of Charlotte Brontë Frederika Macdonald
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  1. PART I CHAPTER I THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË, CREATED BY A FALSE CRITICAL METHOD

    45:31

  2. PART I CHAPTER II THE KEY TO THE PROBLEM

    26:55

  3. PART I CHAPTER III CHARLOTTE'S LAST YEAR AT BRUXELLES, 1842-43

    26:49

  4. PART I CHAPTER IV THE CONFESSION AT STE. GUDULE

    11:40

  5. PART I CHAPTER V THE LEAVE-TAKING - THE SCENE IN THE CLASS-ROOM - 'MY HEART WILL BREAK'

    37:54

  6. PART I CHAPTER VI THE LOVE-LETTERS OF A ROMANTIC

    39:34

  7. PART II CHAPTER I THE HISTORICAL DIFFICULTY: TO DISENTANGLE FACT FROM FICTION

    24:19

  8. PART II CHAPTER II MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO CHARLOTTE BRONTË'S PROFESSOR

    19:51

  9. PART II CHAPTER III MONSIEUR AND MADAME HEGER AS I SAW THEM: AND BELGIAN SCHOOLGIRLS AS I KNEW THEM

    20:42

  10. PART II CHAPTER IV MY SECOND INTERVIEW WITH M. HEGER. THE WASHING OF 'PEPPER.' THE LESSON IN ARITHMETIC

    29:04

  11. PART II CHAPTER V THE STORY OF A CHAPEAU D'UNIFORME

    18:49

  12. PART II CHAPTER VI MADAME HEGER'S SENTIMENT OF THE JUSTICE OF RESIGNATION TO INJUSTICE

    27:04

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Letters and classroom memories give Frederika Macdonald the evidence for a dispute over Charlotte Brontë's literary development. Published in 1914, this study examines Brontë's time at the school in the Rue d'Isabelle and her connection with Monsieur and Madame Heger. Macdonald challenges the account in Mrs. Gaskell's biography, arguing that careful attention to documents should precede judgments about a writer's feelings. She connects that argument with the treatment of personal experience in Villette and The Professor.

Alongside her discussion of Brontë's letters, Macdonald draws on her own knowledge of Monsieur Heger as a teacher. Her portrait presents a man absorbed in literary expression, whose enthusiasm for language shapes the way he responds to his pupils. Biography, literary criticism and personal reminiscence meet in an account of attachment and artistic growth. Readers interested in how literary lives are reconstructed can examine Macdonald's evidence and her insistence on separating historical people from their fictional counterparts.

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62
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