No husband ought to be an object of charity to his wife, as no wife to her husband. A private governess has no existence, is not considered as a living and rational being except as connected with the wearisome duties she has to fulfil. I love the Church of England. Her ministers, indeed, I do not regard as infallible personages. Reader, I married him. Charlotte Bronte's novels, dealing with governesses, schools, Belgium and Yorkshire, are popularly supposed to be based on her life, for she was a governess in Yorkshire and a teacher and pupil in Belgium. There is a strange gap, however, between the fierce passion of the novels and the sad drabness of her life, brightened by the startling success of Jane Eyre, but almost immediately darkened by the deaths of her brother and two sisters. This collection of Sayings, taken from her letters, poems and novels, is designed to reflect these contrasts.