'I have got the "Guesses at Truth", & thank you for them darling'.
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
From the 1806-1840 Commonplace book of an unknown reader. Transcription of 'Confidence and Distrust, 1840 Hare', beginning "Righteously have jealousy and suspicion been ever regarded as among the meanest and most hateful features which cannot coexist with any gentle or generous feeling...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:
'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the deaths of her brother and two sisters]. I have read J. C. Hare's "Guesses at Truth," a book containing things that in depth and far-sought wisdom sometimes recall the "Thoughts" of Pascal, only it is as the light of the moon recalls that of the sun.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
'I suppose you read long ago the Hare ''Memorials of a Quiet Life''. I feel intense compassion for the shortness of poor Mrs Hare's married happiness...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin Print: Book
'Augustus Hare's ''Two Noble Lives'' is most entertaining and pleasant, though the letters are merely natural, and telling what happens without a spark of wit and humour.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Darwin Print: Book
