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Elizabeth Branwell

 

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Ellen Nussey's reminiscences of Patrick Bronte's sister-in-law Elizabeth Branwell (in 1871 account of her 1833 visit to Haworth Parsonage): 'In summer she spent part of the afternoon in reading aloud to Mr Bronte. In the winter evenings she must have enjoyed this; for she and Mr Bronte had often to finish their discussions on what she had read when we all met for tea.'

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Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell      

  

 : Blackwood's Magazine

Emily Bronte, diary paper for 30 July 1841 'It is Friday evening -- near 9 o'clock ... Aunt upstairs in her room -- she has been reading "Blackwood's Magazine" to papa ...'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell      Print: Serial / periodical

  

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[From Ellen Nussey's account of her first visit to the home of her schoolfriend, Charlotte Bronte:] 'In summer [Elizabeth Branwell] spent part of the afternoon in reading aloud to Mr Bronte. In the winter evenings she must have enjoyed this; for she and Mr Bronte had often to finish their discussions on what she had read when we all met for tea.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell      Print: Unknown

  

 : The Lady's Magazine

Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840): 'I am sorry I did not exist, sir, fifty or sixty years ago, when the "Ladies' Magazine" was flourishing like a green bay tree. In that case, I make no doubt, my aspirations after literary fame would have met with due encouragement [...] I recollect, when I was a child, getting hold of some antiquated old volumes, and reading them by stealth with the most exquisite pleasure. You give a correct description [in letter] of the patent Grisels of those days. My aunt was one of them; and to this day she thinks the tales of the "Ladies' Magazine" infinitely superior to any trash of modern literature. So do I; for I read them in childhood, and childhood has a very strong faculty of admiration, but a very weak one of criticism'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell      Print: Serial / periodical

  

 : Blackwood's Magazine

From Emily Bronte's 'diary paper' of 30 July 1841: 'It is Friday evening, near 9 o'clock -- wild rainy weather. I am seated in the dining-room alone [...] Papa is in the parlour -- aunt upstairs in her room. She has been reading Blackwood's Magazine to papa.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Branwell      Print: Serial / periodical

 

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