Record Number: 28688
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Mary Taylor to her schoolfriend Charlotte Bronte, 25 April 1850:
'I have seen some extracts from "Shirley" in which you talk of women working. And this first duty, this great necessity you seem to think that some women may indulge in — if they give up marriage and don't make themselves too disagreeable to the other sex. You are a coward and a traitor. A woman who works is by that alone better than one who does not and a woman who does not happen to be rich and who still earns no money and does not wish to do so, is guilty of [...] a dereliction of duty which leads rapidly and almost certainly to all manner of degradation. It is very wrong of you to plead for toleration of workers on the ground of their being in peculiar circumstandes and few in number or singular in disposition. Work or degradation is the lot of all except the very small number born to wealth.'
1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1849 and 24 Apr 1850
Country:New Zealand
Timen/a
Place:city: Wellington
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:26 Feb 1817
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Author and shop-keeper
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:New Zealand
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Shirley (extracts)
Genre:Fiction
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28688
Source:n/a
Editor:Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington
Title:The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:2:3
Page:104-105
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2:3, p. 104-105, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28688, accessed: 18 May 2024
Additional Comments:
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