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Eliza Lynn : Amymone (extracts)

Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 22 November 1848:

'I have read "Madeleine." It is a fine pearl in a simple setting. Julia Kavanagh has my esteem; I would rather know her than many far more briliant personages. Somehow my heart leans more to her than to Eliza Lynn, for instance. Not that I have read either "Amymone" or "Azeth," but I have seen extracts from them which I found it literally impossible to digest. They present to my imagination Lytton Bulwer [sic] in petticoats — an overwhelming vision.'

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

Eliza Lynn : Azeth, the Egyptian (extracts)

Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 22 November 1848:

'I have read "Madeleine." It is a fine pearl in a simple setting. Julia Kavanagh has my esteem; I would rather know her than many far more briliant personages. Somehow my heart leans more to her than to Eliza Lynn, for instance. Not that I have read either "Amymone" or "Azeth," but I have seen extracts from them which I found it literally impossible to digest. They present to my imagination Lytton Bulwer [sic] in petticoats — an overwhelming vision.'

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

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