Evidence: | 'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressions do grow stronger & stronger in their old places. She is perfect after her kind ? true to the nature she SAW - & with a sufficient sense of the Beautiful, for grace. Like Mrs Hemans, she is too obviously a lady. I have put it in the shape of blame - & many might remark the same thing for praise: I mean however, that her ladyhood is always stronger in her than her humanity. Not that she is defective in strength as Mrs Hemans sometimes is ? she can "always do the thing she would" better than anybody else. Surely, surely I am not a niggard in my praise of Jane Austen! To call her a great writer & learned in the secrets, heights & depths of our nature, or a poet in anywise, is all that I refuse to call her ? and indeed I have not breath & articulation for such an opinion: & it astonishes me that you shd be so exorbitant my dearest Miss Mitford, in your claim for her!'
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 24 May 1843 and 30 Jun 1843 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Gentry |
Occupation: | Poet |
Religion: | Evangelical Anglican |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | Also known as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mrs Robert Browning |
Author: | Jane Austen |
Title: | Mansfield Park |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 7752 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | |
Editor: | Meredith B. Raymond | |
Title: | The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford 1836-1854 | |
Place of Publication: | Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University, The Browning Institute, Wedgestone Press and Wellesley College | |
Date of Publication: | 1983 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 260 | |
Additional comments: | Second editor is Mary Rose Sullivan Letter from Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford, 30 Jun 1843 |
Citation: | Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Meredith B. Raymond (ed.), The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Mary Russell Mitford 1836-1854 (Armstrong Browning Library of Baylor University, The Browning Institute, Wedgestone Press and Wellesley College, 1983), 2, p. 260, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=7752, accessed: 29 March 2024 |
This was the third reading of Mansfield Park. |
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