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Mary Russell Mitford : Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery
'Dear Miss Mitford, I rejoice in finding an occasion to address you, that I may express the very great pleasure both my husband and myself have always derived from your writing. We know your "village" and all its crofts, and lanes and people, and we wish we had the happiness of peronally knowing you.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
Thomas Noon Talfourd : Ion
'Thank you very much for the gift of "Ion"; the tragedy was known to us by extracts, and our desire to see it was great. We like it very much - it is a noble descendant of the noble Greek tragedy.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
Robert Nicholls : Arouse the Soul
'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, full of life, humour, and the noblest elements of poetry. I cannot tell you how such poems as "Arouse the Soul," "I Dare not Scorn," and others such of which this volume has many, affect me. It is such writing as this which makes one feel that talent is nobler than birth, and high-mindedness of more worth than gold.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
Robert Nicholls : I Dare not Scorn
'Have you seen Robert Nicholls' poems? If you are a reader of "Tait's Magazine", you will see the review of them; that is a right manly and sterling volume of poetry, full of life, humour, and the noblest elements of poetry. I cannot tell you how such poems as "Arouse the Soul," "I Dare not Scorn," and others such of which this volume has many, affect me. It is such writing as this which makes one feel that talent is nobler than birth, and high-mindedness of more worth than gold.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
: Advertisement for new edition of Mary Russell Mitford's "Our Village"
'This new edition of "Our Village" I have been coveting ever since I saw the advertisement of it, and I will tell you why. It is one of those cheerful, spirited works, full of fair pictures of humanity, which, especially where there are children who love reading and being read to, becomes a household book, turned to again and again, and remembered and talked of with affection. So it is by our fireside; it is a work our little daughter has read, and loves to read, and which our little son Alfred, a most indomitable young gentleman, likes especially - not so much for its variety of character, which gives its charm to his sister's mind, but for its descriptions of the country... Such, dear Miss Mitford, being the case, when I saw the new edition advertised, I began to cast in my mind whether or not we could not buy it...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Advertisement
Mary Russell Mitford : Rienzi
'I have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, very much, but unless there were historical ground for the love between a Colonna and the family of Rienzi, he has injured his work by the introduction. It is so palpably an imitation of the tragedy and with much less effect...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
Edward Bulwer Lytton : Rienzi
'i have read Bulwer's "Rienzi" and yours also. I always thought your tragedy the best of your works, and I think so still. It is a glorious thing. I like Bulwer's too, very much, but unless there were historical ground for the love between a Colonna and the family of Rienzi, he has injured his work by the introduction. It is so palpably an imitation of the tragedy and with much less effect...'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Howitt Print: Book
: Blackwood's Magazine
'I saw it [praise of Joanna Baillie] in "Blackwood's" this present month, and with indignation too. I never deny the wonderful excellence of Joanna Baillie, but no one shall persuade me that "Rienzi" is not as good as any drama by her.'
