Record Number: 28692
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 27 August 1850:
'The "Westminster Review" is not a periodical I see regularly, but some time since I got hold of a number — for last January, I think — in which there was an article entitled "Woman's Mission" (the phrase is hackneyed), containing a great deal that seemed to me just and sensible. Men begin to regard the position of woman in another light than they used to do; and a few men, whose sympathies are fine and whose sense of justice is strong, think and speak of it with a candour that commands my admiration. [comments further on issue of position of women in society]'
1850-1899
Date:Between 1 Jan 1850 and 27 Aug 1850
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Timen/a
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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 Apr 1816
Socio-Economic Group:Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation:Writer
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:England
Country of Experience:n/a
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:'Woman's Mission'
Genre:Essays / Criticism, Politics
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication DetailsWestminster Review, 52 (January 1850): 352-78.
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:28692
Source: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:2:3
Page:149-150
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
Thomas James Wise and John Alexander Symington (ed.), The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence, (Oxford, 1980), 2:3, p. 149-150, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=28692, accessed: 29 September 2024
Additional Comments:
"Is.Is," the author of "Woman's Mission," is identified further as "Adams" in the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.