Record Number: 28773
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 30 September 1854:
'We all know that it is not precisely advantageous to a really good book to be published
piecemeal in a periodical — but still — such a plan has its good side. "North and South" will
thus be seen by many into whose hands it would not otherwise fall.
What has appeared I like well, and better and better each fresh number; best of all the last
(to-day's). The subject seems to me difficult; at first, I groaned over it [...] but I think I see
the ground you are about to take as far as the Church is concerned; not that of attack on her,
but of defence of those who conscientiously differ from her, and feel it a duty to leave her
fold.
'Well — it is good ground, but still rugged for the step of Fiction [...] It seems to me you
understand well the Genius of the North. Where the Southern Lady and the Northern Mechanic
are brought into contrast and contact, I think Nature is well respected. Simple, true, and good
did I think the last number — clear of artifical trammels of style and thought.'
1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1854 and 30 Sep 1854
Country:England
Timen/a
Place:county: Yorkshire
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:North and South (instalments)
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Details1854
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28773
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:2:4
Page:153-154
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2:4, p. 153-154, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28773, accessed: 01 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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