| Evidence: | 'She [Charlotte Bronte] has had an uncomfortable kind of coolness with Miss Martineau, on account of some [italics] very [end italics] disagreeable remarks Miss M. made on Villette, and this has been preying on Miss Bronte's mind as she says everything does prey on it, in the solitude in which she lives'. |
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| Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 30 Apr 1853 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Harriet Martineau |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 12 Jun 1802 |
| 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 |
| Author: | Charlotte Bronte |
| Title: | Villette |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 19132 | |
| 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: | 230 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 230, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19132, accessed: 18 April 2024 | |
| Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter from Elizabeth Gaskell to John Forster (?) |
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