Evidence: | 'To return to "Trevelyan". I long to know what you will hear of it from Mary. I think Lady Augusta admirably drawn, her letters are real life, and what a striking little trait her being less fond of St Ives than of the other boy because he had seen Theresa. But [italics] entre nous [end italics], sacredly, I do think she has too much excuse for standing out about the latter, and A.K. made the observation too. [LS then comments on the character of Theresa and her actions.] But interest, interest, interest, as Mrs Williams says, is the first, second, and third perfection in a novel, and that never fails or slackens, nor does one hardly know such a hero as Tevelyan. Mrs Williams will have it that Theresa is not worthy of him, nor likely to have attracted such a man, and caused such a lasting passion; she is not intellectual enough; a mere boarding-school-girl uninformed, etc. etc. Pshoh! I am not over sure that such men like much [italics] mind [end italics] in a woman. I am very sure they can do without it - and at any rate Theresa has capabilities, is what a superior man might train and make something of. However, there is but one voice as (to) thinking it a most interesting book - what nobody can lay down'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 18 Nov 1833 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Capesthorne | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Mrs Williams |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | n/a |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
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: | Jane Scott |
Title: | Trevelyan |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 20577 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Louisa Stuart | |
Editor: | R. Brimley Johnson | |
Title: | Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart, The | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1926 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 249-50 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Louisa Stuart, R. Brimley Johnson (ed.), Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart, The (London, 1926), p. 249-50, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=20577, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
letter to Louisa Clinton. Jane Scott was some sort of family connection of LS. |
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