Record Number: 28744
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 25 March 1852:
'I have lately read with great pleasure "The Two Families." This work, it seems, should have
reached me in January — but owing to a mistake it was detained at the Dead-Letter office and
lay there nearly two months. I liked the commencement very much [...] I thought the
authoress committed a mistake in shifting the main interest from the two personages on
whom it first rests — viz. Ben Wilson and Mary — to other characters of quite inferior
conception [comments further].'
1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1852 and 25 Mar 1852
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:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:The Two Families
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1852
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28744
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:326
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. 326, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28744, accessed: 19 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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