Evidence: | 'I'll change my tactics [from trying to persuade Blackwood to give her a copy of "Adam Bede" out of generosity] and say you owe me compensation for an article {of} under which if the wit had been a tithe equal to the wish to abuse I might have winced with pain. As it was I only felt indignant at the bad spirit in which the review of my Life of Charlotte Bronte was written, & half inclined to offer my services to Mr Aytoun the next time he wished to have an article written which should point out with something like keen and bitter perception the short-comings of my books'. |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jul 1857 and 5 Mar 1859 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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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 and clergyman's wife |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | Blackwood's Magazine |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | issue for July 1857 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 19236 | |
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: | 532 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 532, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19236, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Additional editor, Arthur Pollard. Letter to John Blackwood. |
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