Evidence: | 'Since I heard, from authority, that you were the author of Scenes from "Clerical Life" and "Adam Bede", I have read them again; and I must, once more, tell you how earnestly fully, and humbly I admire them. I never read anything so complete, and beautiful in fiction, in my whole life before. [She then writes a bit about the imposture of Mr Liggins as the books' author, concluding] I should not be quite true in my ending, if I did not say before I concluded that I wish you [italics] were [end italics] Mrs Lewes. However, that can't be helped, as far as I can see, and one must not judge others. Once more, thanking you most gratefully for having written all - Janet's Repentance perhaps most especially of all, - (& may I tell you how I singled out the 2nd No of Amos Barton in Blackwood, & went plodging through our Manchester Sts to get every number, as soon as it was accessible from the Portico reading table - )' |
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Century: | 1850-1899 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1858 and 10 Nov 1859 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Manchester specific address: 42 Plymouth Grove |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 29 Sep 1810 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | writer and clergyman's wife |
Religion: | Unitarian |
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: | George Eliot [pseud.] |
Title: | Scenes from Clerical Life |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | published volume and serially in Blackwood's |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 19270 | |
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: | 592 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, J.A.V. Chapple (ed.), Letters of Mrs Gaskell, The (Manchester, 1997), p. 592, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=19270, accessed: 26 April 2024 |
Additional editor Arthur Pollard. Letter to Marian Evans (George Eliot) |
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