Evidence: | '[Having visited Haworth, Gaskell acquired MSS of 'The Professor', 'Emma'], & by far the most extraordinary of all, a packet about the size of a lady's travelling writing case, full of paper books of different sizes, from the one I enclose upwards to the full 1/2 sheet size, but all in this indescribably fine writing. - Mr Gaskell says they would make more than 50 vols of print, - but they are the wildest & most incoherent things, as far as we have examined them, [italics] all [end italics] purporting to be written, or addressed to some member of the Wellesley family. They give one the idea of creative power carried to the verge of insanity. Just lately Mr M Milnes gave me some MS. of Blake's, the painters to read, - & the two MSS (his & C.B.'s) are curiously alike. But what I want to know is if a photograph could be taken to give some idea of the finness of the writing'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 19 Jul 1856 and 25 Jul 1856 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Manchester specific address: 84 Plymouth Grove |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Sep 1810 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer, clergyman's wife |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
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Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Charlotte Bronte |
Title: | [manuscripts] |
Genre: | n/a |
Form of Text: | Manuscript: books |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (other) borrowed from Mr Nicholls |
Record ID: | 19155 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell | |
Editor: | J.A.V. Chapple | |
Title: | Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The | |
Place of Publication: | Manchester | |
Date of Publication: | 1997 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 398 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 398, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19155, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter from Elizabeth Gaskell to George Smith. She was writing her Life of Bronte. |
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