Record Number: 28677
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 10 January 1850:
'I have received and perused the "Edinburgh Review" — it is very brutal and savage. I am not angry with Lewes, but I wish in future he would let me alone, and not write again what makes me feel so cold and sick as I am feeling just now.'
1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1850 and 10 Jan 1850
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:n/a
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: 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
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'Currer Bell's Shirley'
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsEdinburgh Review, 91 (January 1850): 153-73.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28677
Source: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:2:3
Page:66
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2:3, p. 66, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28677, accessed: 25 April 2024
Additional Comments:
See p.68 in source for Bronte's letter of 19 January 1850 to Lewes, in which she states the reason for her objection to his article as being 'because after I had said earnestly that I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman, you so roughly — I even thought so cruelly — handled the question of sex.'
