Charlotte Bronte, with all her splendid gift for prose, stumbled and fell with that clumsy weapon [a male literary style] in her hands. George Eliot committed atrocities with it that beggar description. Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it. Thus, with less genius for writing than Charlotte Bronte, she got infinitely more said.
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