Record Number: 28554

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 29 March 1848:

'The notice from the "Church of England Quarterly Review" is not on the whole a bad one. True, it condemns the tendency of "Jane Eyre," and seems to think Mr Rochester should have been represented as going through the mystic process of "regeneration" before any respectable person could have consented to believe his contrition for the past errors sincere; true, also, that it casts a doubt on Jane's creed, and leaves it doubtful whether she was Hindoo, Mahommedan, or infidel. But nothwithstanding these eccentricities, it is a conscientious notice, very unlike that in the "Mirror," for instance, which seems the result of a feeble sort of spite, whereas this is the critic's real opinion: some of the ethical and theological notions are not according to his system, and he disapproves of them.'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1848 and 29 Mar 1848

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

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:

Reader:

Charlotte Brontë

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

21 Mar 1816

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

Church of England

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 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Genre:

Essays / Criticism

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

In The Church of England Quarterly Review

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28554

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

James Wise and John Alexander Symington

Title:

The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence

Place of Publication:

Oxford

Date of Publication:

1980

Vol:

2

Page:

200

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2, p. 200, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28554, accessed: 27 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

None