Evidence: | 'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written "Pride and Prejudice" or "Tom Jones", than any of the Waverley Novels? I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice" till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. These observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run the risk.' [Bronte goes on to compare Austen and George Sand] |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1847 and 12 Jan 1848 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | Charlotte Bronte |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 21 Apr 1816 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Novelist |
Religion: | Anglican |
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 Austen |
Title: | Pride and Prejudice |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 8027 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Charlotte Bronte | |
Editor: | T.J. Wise | |
Title: | The Brontes: Their Friendships, Lives, and Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Oxford | |
Date of Publication: | 1932 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 178 | |
Additional comments: | second editor, J.A. Symington. Letter from Charlotte Bronte to G.H. Lewes, 12 Jan 1848 |
Citation: | Charlotte Bronte, T.J. Wise (ed.), The Brontes: Their Friendships, Lives, and Correspondence (Oxford, 1932), 2, p. 178, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=8027, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
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