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The Brontës have been both lucky and unlucky in their editors. The sympathetic, honourable and efficient George Smith contrasts with the mercenary and incompetent T. H. Newby. Good novelists like Mrs Gaskell and Mrs Humphry Ward saw the greatness of the Brontë sisters in spite of their faults, but their modern successors have been unable to distinguish between sense and sentimentality. The novels are now being properly edited in a scholarly edition. Editing the letters, the poetry and the juvenilia is a harder task. This is because the manuscripts came into the hands of a series of editors who were as unscrupulous as they were inefficient. The task would indeed be quite impossible had it not been for the labours of one man, C. W. Hatfield, who apart from his edition of Emily's poetry, is virtually unknown in Brontë circles.KeywordsBritish MuseumEarly TranscriptGreen DwarfExtravagant ClaimGreat GeniusThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.