Record Number: 28724

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Charlotte Bronte to Julia Kavanagh, 21 January 1851:

'I fear you will have thought hard things of me ere this — pronounced me ungrateful [...] but the fact is I only received "Nathalie" a few days since; she has been waiting in London to come down in a parcel with some other books. At last however I have made her acquaintance, read her through from title-page to "Finis" [...] I was thoroughly interested and highly pleased. Your reader is made to realize places and persons; he becomes an inmate of the old Chateau of Sainville [...] Rose Montelieu is excellent; I thought those passages which refer to her illness and death to be among the very best in the book. Nathalie's perverseness as well as her final submission struck me as a little exaggerated — as did some of the traits in M. de Sainville's character — but I said I would not criticise [...] In short I have to thank you for a treat; the work merits success, and the favourable notices which have been given by the various literary journals may I trust be taken as evidences that it has secured it.'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1851 and 21 Jan 1851

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:

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:

Julia Kavanagh

Title:

Nathalie

Genre:

Fiction

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

owned

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28724

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:

2:3

Page:

203

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. 203, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28724, accessed: 17 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None