Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 711
nted as one of the more ex-quisite, chaste, and sensitive of human beings. There weregifts here higher than intellectual observation or reflection.There was something spiritual, akin to the prophetic. Likeour Laura Bridgeman, the deaf, dumb, and blind girl of Bos-ton, she could see, as it were,… … Fig. 1010.—Charlotte Bronte.* c Charlotte Bronte was born at Thornton, in Yorkshire, England, April21, 1816. Her father was a curate in humble circumstances. Her life, upto almost the period of her death, was one of anxiety and care. Domesticbereavements, and the lack of favor which her earlier…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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