Record Number: 28656

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the deaths of her brother and two sisters] [...] I have read with pleasure a little book on "English Social Life" by the wife of Archbishop Whately. Good and intelligent women write well on such subjects. This lady speaks of governesses. I was struck by the contrast offered in her manner of treating the topic to that of Miss Rigby in the "Quarterly." How much finer the feeling — how much truer the feeling — how much more delicate the mind here revealed!'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Oct 1847 and 13 Sep 1849

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 Apr 1816

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

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:

Elizabeth Eastlake

Title:

'Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Education

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Quarterly Review, 84 (December 1848): 153-85.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28656

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:

2:1

Page:

20

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships, and Correspondence, (Oxford , 1980), 2:1, p. 20, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28656, accessed: 29 April 2024

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Additional Comments:

Source identified using the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.