| Evidence: | [Charlotte Bronte to Margaret Wooler, on the Bronte sisters' investment plans, 23 April
1845:]
'There is nothing so uncertain as rail-roads; the price of shares varies continually -- and any
day a small share-holder may find his funds shrunk to their original dimensions. Emily has
made herself mistress of the necessary degree of knowledge for conducting the matter, by
dint of carefully reading every paragraph and every advertisement in the news papers that
related to rail-roads and as we have abstained from all gambling, all mere speculative buying-
in and selling-out -- we have got on very decently.' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1845 and 23 Apr 1845 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | Emily Bronte |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Female |
| Date of Birth | 30 Jul 1818 |
| 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: | articles on railways and railway stock |
| Genre: | Technology, Reference / General works, Finance |
| Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 28466 | |
| 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: | II:13 | |
| 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. II:13, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=28466, accessed: 02 May 2024 | |
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