Little bios of Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and George Eliot. Treated with affection, and letting the authors speak for themselves. Hinkley describes Burney as breaking into English literature in 1778, an "intrusion of an unwanted sex into one of "the gentlemen's" most jealously guarded preserves." She provides sympathetic biographies of each subject, naming each section by their first names and starting with their early lives. Colorful green cloth cover with white, yellow and blue flowers, design repeated on dust jacket (excellent condition, protected in mylar). Hastings House Publishers, NY, 1946. 374 pgs, Hb, Dj. USED. $35.00