Record Number: 12779
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [italics]Life of Miss Bronte[end italics]. Years ago, when [italics]Jane Eyre[end italics] came out I read it. People said it was coarse, and I felt it was, but I felt also that the person who wrote it was not necessarily coarse-minded, that the moral of the story was intended to be good; but that it failed in detail. The life is intensely, painfully interesting. A purer, more high-minded person it seems there could scarcely be, wonderfully gifted, and with a man's energy and power of will and passionate impulse; and yet gentle and womanly in all her ways [goes on to reflect upon Bronte's depressive temperament, and to characterise her religious feeling as 'abstract belief not personal love']'.
Century:1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1847 and 9 Jun 1857
Country:Great Britain
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:19 Feb 1815
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:Great Britain
Country of Experience:Great Britain
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Jane Eyre
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Book
Publication Details1847
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:12779
Source:Elizabeth Missing Sewell
Editor:Eleanor L. Sewell
Title:The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell
Place of Publication:London
Date of Publication:1908
Vol:n/a
Page:159-60
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Eleanor L. Sewell (ed.), The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell, (London, 1908), p. 159-60, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12779, accessed: 05 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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