Excerpt from An Hour With Charlotte Bront Or, Flowers From a Yorkshire Moor The solitude of a gray old parsonage nursed her imaginative faculty, and in the absolute dearth of society she learned to think and to write. She lost her mother when she was five years old, and was left the care-taker of her younger sisters and brother, after the two eldest sisters had been sent away to school. Mr. Bront did not know how to undertake the care and education of so many children, but he was a student him self and enforced his Spartan ideas of study upon his willing pupils. Fortunately, they were all the inheritors of his intel lectual tastes, and to this circumstance they owed all the pleas ure they enjoyed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.