Evidence: | Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers, Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 25 December 1847:
'Permit me to thank you for your present, which reached me yesterday. I was not prepared for anything so truly tasteful, and when I had opened the parcel, removed the various envelopes, and at last got a glimpse of the chastely attractive binding, I was most agreeably surprised. What is better, on examination I find the contents fully to answer the expectation excited by the charming exterior; the [italics]Honey[end italics] is quite as choice as the [italics]Jar[end italics] is elegant. The illustrations too are very beautiful, some of them peculiarly so.' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 24 Dec 1847 and 25 Dec 1847 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Charlotte Bronte |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 21 Apr 1816 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | n/a |
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: | Leigh Hunt |
Title: | A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, History, Poetry, Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | In early copy of the first edition; the book not published until 1848. |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 28488 | |
Source - | ||
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:168 | |
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:168, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28488, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
See vol II., p165 and p.165 n.1 in source for details of authorship, and publication date, of text. |
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