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The volume 2 that we've released appears to be from the first edition of
the book. My book appears to be the third edition of the book.
Normally this would not matter at all but unfortunately in this case it
does. Mrs Gaskell had to remove a great deal of material after the
second edition was published after legal threats. She did this but also
added a great deal of new material. Hence the first/second editions
differ significantly from the third. Anyone interested in this book is
likely to want complete etexts of the first/second and third versions - so
they can see what Mrs Gaskell changed (and presumably work out
why).
In the short term I'm not proposing to do a volume 2 from my edition as
it scanned rather poorly. If anyone really pushes for it I will transcribe
the rest of it from my copy.
This etext was prepared by David Price, email
[email protected]
from the 1906 Smith, Elder and Co. edition.
The Life of Charlotte Bronte
CHAPTER I
The Leeds and Skipton railway runs along a deep valley of the Aire; a
slow and sluggish stream, compared to the neighbouring river of
Wharfe. Keighley station is on this line of railway, about a quarter of a
mile from the town of the same name. The number of inhabitants and
the importance of Keighley have been very greatly increased during the
last twenty years, owing to the rapidly extended market for worsted
manufactures, a branch of industry that mainly employs the factory
population of this part of Yorkshire, which has Bradford for its centre
and metropolis.
Keighley is in process of transformation from a populous, old-
fashioned village, into a still more populous and flourishing town. It is
evident to the stranger, that as the gable-ended houses, which obtrude
themselves corner-wise on the widening street, fall vacant, they are
pulled down to allow of greater space for traffic, and a more modern
style of architecture. The quaint and narrow shop-windows of fifty
years ago, are giving way to large panes and plate-glass. Nearly every
dwelling seems devoted to some branch of commerce. In passing
hastily through the town, one hardly perceives where the necessary
lawyer and doctor can live, so little appearance is there of any
dwellings of the professional middle-class, such as abound in our old
cathedral towns. In fact, nothing can be more opposed than the state of
society, the modes of thinking, the standards of reference on all points
of morality, manners, and even politics and religion, in such a new
manufacturing place as Keighley in the north, and any stately, sleepy,
picturesque cathedral town in the south. Yet the aspect of Keighley
promises well for future stateliness, if not picturesqueness. Grey stone
abounds; and
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