... often framed in metaphors of imprisonment, is embodied in such novels as Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847) and Villette (1853), Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847), and Eliot's The Mill on the Floss (1860). As much as novelists were concerned with the development of the individual consciousness, ... his inheritance of twenty thousand pounds through gambling. In the beginning of the 1830s he visited Germany, where he met Goethe. During 1831-33 Thackeray studied law at the Middle Temple, London, but had little enthusiasm to continued his studies. In 1833 he brought with a large ... ,...

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