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']'.
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1847 and 9 Jun 1857 | ||||||||||
Country: | Great Britain | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell |
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, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charlotte Bronte |
Title: | Jane Eyre |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | 1847 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 12779 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | 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: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Missing Sewell, Eleanor L. Sewell (ed.), The Autobiography of Elizabeth M. Sewell (London, 1908), p. 159-60, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12779, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
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