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Sarah R. Whitehead : Rose Douglas; or, Sketches of a Country Parish: being The Autobiography of a Scotch Minister's Daughter

Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 8 March 1851:

'I have read "Rose Douglas" — read it with a tranquil but not a shallow pleasure; full well do I like it. It is a good book — so simple, so natural, so truthful, so graphic, so religious — in a word, so Scottish in the best and kindliest sense of the term. Surely it will succeed'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Book

Sarah R. Whitehead : The Two Families

Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 25 March 1852:

'I have lately read with great pleasure "The Two Families." This work, it seems, should have reached me in January — but owing to a mistake it was detained at the Dead-Letter office and lay there nearly two months. I liked the commencement very much [...] I thought the authoress committed a mistake in shifting the main interest from the two personages on whom it first rests — viz. Ben Wilson and Mary — to other characters of quite inferior conception [comments further].'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë      Print: Book

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