Evidence: | [Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840):]
'I am sorry I did not exist, sir, fifty or sixty years ago, when the "Ladies' Magazine" was flourishing like a green bay tree. In that case, I make no doubt, my aspirations after literary fame would have met with due encouragement [...] I recollect, when I was a child, getting hold of some antiquated old volumes, and reading them by stealth with the most exquisite pleasure. You give a correct description [in letter] of the patent Grisels of those days. My aunt was one of them; and to this day she thinks the tales of the "Ladies' Magazine" infinitely superior to any trash of modern literature. So do I; for I read them in childhood, and childhood has a very strong faculty of admiration, but a very weak one of criticism'. |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Charlotte Bronte |
Age | Child (0-17) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 21 Apr 1816 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
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: | |
Title: | The Lady's Magazine |
Genre: | Fiction, Miscellany / Anthology |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | 1780s-1790s |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 28436 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington | |
Title: | The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1980 | |
Vol: | I-II | |
Page: | 211-212 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence (Oxford, 1980), I-II, p. 211-212, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28436, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
Bronte had written to Wordsworth to ask his advice on writing fiction for publication, apparently enclosing an example of her work; see p.211 in source. |
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