Evidence: | [Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the book. He said she might leave it, and he would see. But he sent them an invitation to tea that night, and towards the end of tea he said, 'Children, Charlotte has been writing a book - and I think it is a better one than I expected.'' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 25 Aug 1850 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Haworth | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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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: | Clergy (includes all denominations) |
Occupation: | writer, clergyman's daughter |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
Her father, Patrick |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | [reviews of Jane Eyre] |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 19108 | |
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: | 126 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 126, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19108, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter from Elizabeth Gaskell to Catherine Winkworth. |
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