Record Number: 28706
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, George Smith, 18 September 1850:
'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each other as well as to the reader."
Conceive the state of your warehouse if such were the case [...] Yourself and Mr Taylor and
Mr Williams [Smith's partners] would all have to go in several times in the day to part or
silence the disputants. Dr Knox alone, with his "Race: a Fragment" ( a book which I read with
combined interest, amusement, and edification), would deliver the voice of a Stentor if any
other book ventured to call in question his favourite dogmas.'
1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1850 and 18 Sep 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
n/a
Additional Comments:
n/a
Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Races of Men
Genre:Social Science, Science, Natural history
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1850
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28706
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:159
Additional Comments:
n/a
Citation:
Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2:3, p. 159, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28706, accessed: 03 May 2024
Additional Comments:
None
