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Eugene Forcade : [Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre]

Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 16 November 1848:

'To-day I have received the "Spectator" and the "Revue des deux Mondes." The "Spectator" consistently maintains the tone it first assumed regarding the Bells [...] Blind he is as any bat, insensate as any stone, to the merits of Ellis [i.e. Emily Brontë] [...] Because Ellis's poems are short and abstract, the critics think them comparatively insignificant and dull. They are mistaken.
'The notice in the "Revue des deux Mondes" is one of the most able, the most acceptable to the author, of any that has yet appeared. Eugene Forcade understood and enjoyed "Jane Eyre." I cannot say that of all who have professed to criticise it. The censures are as well-founded as the commendations. The specimens of the translation given are on the whole good; now and then the meaning of the original has been misapprehended, but generally it is well rendered.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Serial / periodical

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