Record Number: 28554
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 29 March 1848:
'The notice from the "Church of England Quarterly Review" is not on the whole a bad one.
True, it condemns the tendency of "Jane Eyre," and seems to think Mr Rochester should have
been represented as going through the mystic process of "regeneration" before any
respectable person could have consented to believe his contrition for the past errors sincere;
true, also, that it casts a doubt on Jane's creed, and leaves it doubtful whether she was
Hindoo, Mahommedan, or infidel. But nothwithstanding these eccentricities, it is a
conscientious notice, very unlike that in the "Mirror," for instance, which seems the result of a
feeble sort of spite, whereas this is the critic's real opinion: some of the ethical and
theological notions are not according to his system, and he disapproves of them.'
1800-1849
Date:Between 1 Jan 1848 and 29 Mar 1848
Country:England
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Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Female
Date of Birth:21 Mar 1816
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:Church of England
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:England
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsIn The Church of England Quarterly Review
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28554
Source:n/a
Editor:James Wise and John Alexander Symington
Title:The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence
Place of Publication:Oxford
Date of Publication:1980
Vol:2
Page:200
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2, p. 200, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28554, accessed: 28 October 2024
Additional Comments:
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