![]() ![]() The Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me, and I must thank them in vague terms but my Publishers are definite: so are certain generous critics who have encouraged me as only large-hearted and high-minded men know how to encourage a struggling stranger to them, i.e., to my Publishers and the select Reviewers, I say cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you from my heart. ![]() To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an unknown and unrecommended Author. ![]() To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. A preface to the first edition of “Jane Eyre” being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. ![]()
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