Record Number: 28692

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850:

'The "Westminster Review" is not a periodical I see regularly, but some time since I got hold of a number — for last January, I think — in which there was an article entitled "Woman's Mission" (the phrase is hackneyed), containing a great deal that seemed to me just and sensible. Men begin to regard the position of woman in another light than they used to do; and a few men, whose sympathies are fine and whose sense of justice is strong, think and speak of it with a candour that commands my admiration. [comments further on issue of position of women in society]'

Century:

1850-1899

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1850 and 27 Aug 1850

Country:

n/a

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Charlotte Brontë

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Female

Date of Birth:

21 Apr 1816

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Writer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

n/a

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Is.Is (pseud.)

Title:

'Woman's Mission'

Genre:

Essays / Criticism, Politics

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical

Publication Details

Westminster Review, 52 (January 1850): 352-78.

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

28692

Source:

Print

Author:

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:

149-150

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2:3, p. 149-150, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28692, accessed: 17 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

"Is.Is," the author of "Woman's Mission," is identified further as "Adams" in the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.