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The untamed, disordered, overwhelming powers of the moor become incarnate, and merge themselves indistinguishably with human life. The dark expanse is lightened at moments with the tender and unearthly light of a love affair almost heroic in depth and grandeur. * * She had idolized Thackeray, but, after her habit, was inclined to disillusionment when she met him. With Charlottes fame began her visits to London, and acquaintance with the literary great. * * The story of the grand dinner of celebrities he gave in her honor, and its collapse into such dullness that even the host deserted, is too well-known to repeat. She was too shy and too critical to be made a lion. * * In the meantime she had begun Shirley, a story involved with the riots of labor against machinery, and portraying Emily in the title-role. Composition dragged on through what must have been the culminating trouble of her life, for in the eight months between September, 1848, and May, 1849, she lost her brother and both gifted sisters. Shirley was followed in three years by Villette (1853), containing matter from her earlier story, The Professor. * * She received several offers of marriage from clerics which she refused, probably because of her strange feminine irony. Oddly enough the one to win her heart when she was thirty-eight, was her fathers curate, Arthur Nicholls. He was a fine and gentle soul, but with a touch of Rochesters passion in his wooing. * * After all the bitter and thwarted years, it seemed at last as if her suppressed dream had come true, and her pent-up feelings were to find happy release. Over her last letters falls a new and sober sweetness alien to her earlier writings. Nine months after her marriage her new life sank quite suddenly to its close. * * Wuthering Heights A Brief Introduction The story is narrated by Lockwood, temporary tenant of Thrushcross Grange, who at the opening of the novel stumbles unsuspectingly into the violent world of Wuthering Heights, t