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Record 28474

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 26 October 1847:] 'I have received the newspapers. They speak quite as favourably of "Jane Eyre" as I expected them to do. The notice in the "Literary Gazette" seems certainly to have been indited in rather a flat mood, and the "Athenaeum" has a style of its own, which I respect, but cannot exactly relish; still, when one considers that journals of that standing have a dignity to maintain which would be damaged by a too cordial recognition of the claims if an obscure author, I suppose there is every reason to be satisfied.'
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 1 Oct 1847 and 26 Oct 1847
Country: England
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Charlotte Bronte
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Female
Date of Birth 21 Apr 1816
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer
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

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Genre: Essays / Criticism
Form of Text: Print: Serial / periodical
Publication details: In the Athenaeum (October 1847)
Provenance: unknown

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 28474  
Source - Print  
  Author: n/a
  Editor: Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington
  Title: The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence
  Place of Publication: Oxford
  Date of Publication: 1980
  Vol: I-II
  Page: II:149-150
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence (Oxford, 1980), I-II, p. II:149-150, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28474, accessed: 28 March 2024

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