Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 31 July 1848:
'You will have seen some of the notices of "Wildfell Hall." I wish my sister felt the unfavourable ones less keenly [...] For my part, I consider the subject [domestic abuse and marital separation] unfortunately chosen — it was one the author was not qualified to handle at once vigorously and truthfully. The simple and natural — quiet description and simple pathos are, I think, Acton Bell's forte. I liked "Agnes Grey" better than the present work.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 31 July 1848:
'You will have seen some of the notices of "Wildfell Hall." I wish my sister felt the unfavourable ones less keenly [...] For my part, I consider the subject [domestic abuse and marital separation] unfortunately chosen — it was one the author was not qualified to handle at once vigorously and truthfully. The simple and natural — quiet description and simple pathos are, I think, Acton Bell's forte. I liked "Agnes Grey" better than the present work.'
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Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë
Mary Robinson, author of an early study of Emily Bronte, to Charlotte Bronte's friend Ellen
Nussey, 5 April 1882:
'I am an architect's daughter and like the Bronte's [sic] finished my schooling in Brussels. But
long before then I had read and re-read their books.'
Century: 1800-1849 / 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Agnes Mary Frances Robinson Print: Book
