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Miss Bendey is a Yorkshirewoman. She was born and has Jived a large part of her life amid the Yorkshire countryside which people throughout the world think of as the setting of the Bronte sisters* own lives, and as a vital influence on the growth of their art. Miss Bentley* s critical achievement includes her well-known P.E.N. Booklet, The English Regional Novel. She is among the leading authori- ties on the Brontes and all to do with them, being the editor of the Heather Edition, author of The Brontes, published in 1947, and a member of the Bronte Society Council. She brings not only a deep sympathy to die works of the Brontes, but is in touch with the latest research into their lives and writings. Miss Bentley, herself a novelist of high distinction, has portrayed life in Yorkshire from the seventeenth century to the present day in a series of fictions, of which The Rise of Henry Morcar and Inheritance are probably the most valued. She has travelled widely, is well known as a lecturer in America, and author of Here is America. She is a member of the P.E.N, Club and the English Speaking Union, and takes a keen interest in the Little Theatre movement. Miss Bentley has made revisions, including the final section of the Bibliography, in this new edition of her booklet, which ^a^first published in 1950,