BIB_ID
283653
Accession number
MA 2696.38
Creator
Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855.
Display Date
1849 November 1.
Credit line
The Henry Houston Bonnell Brontë Collection. Bequest of Helen Safford Bonnell, 1969.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.0 cm
Notes
Written on mourning stationery.
High reserve.
High reserve.
Provenance
Henry Houston Bonnell; his wife, Helen Safford Bonnell.
Summary
Noting that she is glad Thackeray is better and asking Williams to tell her if Thackeray gives his opinion of Shirley; mentioning that George Henry Lewes does not like the opening chapter of Shirley; describing her feeling, based on people's reactions to her, that she "no longer walk[s] invisible" and is known as the author of Jane Eyre; discounting a negative review of Shirley as "unutterably false."
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