Record Number: 28471

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to the Editor of the Dublin University Magazine, 6 October 1845:] 'I thank you in my own name and that of my brothers, Ellis [Emily Bronte] and Acton [Anne Bronte], for the indulgent notice that appeared in your last number of our first humble efforts in literature; but I thank you still more for the essay on Modern poetry which preceded it -- an essay in which seems to me to be condensed the very spirit of truth and beauty; if all or half of all your other readers shall have derived from its perusal the delight it afforded to myself and my brothers, your labours have produced a rich result. 'After such criticism an author may indeed be smitten at first by a sense of his own insignificance -- as indeed we were -- but on a second and a third perusal he finds a power and beauty therein which stirs him to a desire to do more and better things -- it fulfils the right end of criticism -- without absolutely crushing -- it corrects and rouses'.

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1845 and 6 Oct 1845

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Haworth
county: Yorkshire

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reading Group:

The Bronte sisters

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

n/a

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writers

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

review of Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Genre:

Other religious, Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In the Dublin University Magazine

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28471

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington

Title:

The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1980

Vol:

I-II

Page:

II:112

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), I-II, p. II:112, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28471, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

'notice' and 'essay' the same piece?