Read "Nathalie" by Julia Kavanagh
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book
'"Desperately in love with the hero", 26-year-old Mary Gladstone confided to her journal in 1874 after finishing Julia Kavanagh's "Natalie" (1850).'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Gladstone Print: Book
'Mary Gladstone ... devoured Julia Kavanagh's "Adele" (1858) ...'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Gladstone Print: Book
'... "Natalie" [by Julia Kavanagh] she [Mary Gladstone] did not think measured up to the same author's "Daisy Burns" (1853), although her recommendation ... led her father, lately ejected from the premiership, to read it too.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: William Ewart Gladstone Print: Book
'Meta & I have read this 1st vol of Rachel Gray - I think it very interesting'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth and Margaret (Meta) Gaskell Print: Book
'I am very much obliged to you for letting me see Miss Kavanagh's new work. I will take great care of it and return it before long.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 22 November 1848:
'I have read "Madeleine." It is a fine pearl in a simple setting. Julia Kavanagh has my esteem; I would rather know her than many far more briliant personages. Somehow my heart leans more to her than to Eliza Lynn, for instance. Not that I have read either "Amymone" or "Azeth," but I have seen extracts from them which I found it literally impossible to digest. They present to my imagination Lytton Bulwer [sic] in petticoats — an overwhelming vision.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to Julia Kavanagh, 21 January 1851:
'I fear you will have thought hard things of me ere this — pronounced me ungrateful [...] but
the fact is I only received "Nathalie" a few days since; she has been waiting in London to
come down in a parcel with some other books. At last however I have made her acquaintance,
read her through from title-page to "Finis" [...] I was thoroughly interested and highly pleased.
Your reader is made to realize places and persons; he becomes an inmate of the old Chateau
of Sainville [...] Rose Montelieu is excellent; I thought those passages which refer to her
illness and death to be among the very best in the book. Nathalie's perverseness as well as
her final submission struck me as a little exaggerated — as did some of the traits in M. de
Sainville's character — but I said I would not criticise [...] In short I have to thank you for a
treat; the work merits success, and the favourable notices which have been given by the
various literary journals may I trust be taken as evidences that it has secured it.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 25 March 1852:
'I ought long since to have acknowledged the gratification with which I read Miss Kavanagh's
"Women of Christianity." Her charity and (on the whole) her impartiality are very beautiful
[goes on to express reservations regarding some of author's representations of Protestant and
Roman Catholic Christianity].'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 9 March 1853:
'I have tried to read "Daisy Burns"; at the close of the Ist Vol. I stopped. I must not give an
opinion of it for I should seem severe. Miss Kavanagh's intentions are thoroughly good — her
execution in this case seems to me disastrous [...] I find in it no real blood or life; it is
painted and cold.'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Charlotte Brontë Print: Book
