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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 with pleasure a little book on "English Social Life" by the wife of Archbishop Whately. Good and intelligent women write well on such subjects. This lady speaks of governesses. I was struck by the contrast offered in her manner of treating the topic to that of Miss Rigby in the "Quarterly." How much finer the feeling — how much truer the feeling — how much more delicate the mind here revealed!'