Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850: 'I have just finished reading the "Life of Dr Arnold", but now when I wish -- in accordance with your request -- to express what I think of it -- I do not find the task very easy -- proper terms seem wanting ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Bronte Print: Book
'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so like them and so does Meta. And Dasent's Norse Tales, which are charming, & the introduction best of all and "Adam Bede" - you read Scenes from Clerical Life? did you not?'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Emily Gaskell Print: Book
'Read Arthur Stanley's Three Introductory Lectures on the Study of Ecclesiastical History Parker Oxford - price [italics] perhaps [ed italics] 2s-6d, not more. I do so like them and so does Meta. And Dasent's Norse Tales, which are charming, & the introduction best of all and "Adam Bede" - you read Scenes from Clerical Life? did you not?)'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
'(do you know how [italics] very [end italics] beautiful that Cathedral [at Canterbury] is, & do you know Arthur Stanley's memorials of Canterbury?)'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850:
'I have just finished reading the Life of Dr Arnold [...] This is not a character to be dismissed
with a few laudatory words [...] pure panegyric would be inappropriate. Dr Arnold (it seems to
me) was not quite saintly; his greatness was cast in a mortal mould; he was a little severe —
almost a little hard [...] Himself the most indefatigable of workers, I know not whether he
could have understood or made allowance for a temperament that required more rest [...]
Exacting he might have been then on this point, and granting that he was so, and a little
hasty, stern, and positive, those were his sole faults [...] Where can we find justice, firmness,
independence, earnestness, sincerity, fuller and purer than in him? [comments further]'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
'Sept. Nov. Very interesting'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good Print: Book
