Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 February 1842: 'What an amusing book these Burneyana [italics]do[end italics] make! There is certainly a [italics]consciousness[end italics] which combined with the egoism & the Evelinaism "in saecula saeculorum", suggests no idea of modesty, real modesty [...] And thus I do not worship the "dear little Burney" as a fair incarnate modesty [...] But I do like her book -- I do think it full of living pulses & delightfulness, & my heart leaps up at the hum of work-day life issuing thus from the tomb-door of that dead generation. Oh -- do read the book -- I mean, at once -- read it at once.'