BIB_ID
299584
Accession number
MA 7324.1
Creator
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1852].
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 12.9 cm
Notes
Dating: Hypatia first appeared serialized in Fraser's Magazine beginning in 1852.
Part of a collection of 13 letters from Charles Kingsley to his publisher J. W. Parker. Letters have been described individually in 13 catalog records (MA 7324.1-13); see collection-level record for more information.
Part of a collection of 13 letters from Charles Kingsley to his publisher J. W. Parker. Letters have been described individually in 13 catalog records (MA 7324.1-13); see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Sending the first number of his novel Hypatia, and discussing its publication. Asking for the proofs "as soon as possible," noting "I cannot tell what the style looks like, unless I see it in print." Discussing a recent cookery article in Fraser's Magazine, hoping it is not by Mrs. Meredith, as the author has included "a great deal of bosh about the Greeks" and has confessed to reading Petronius, "[which] no decent woman [should] touch with a pair of tongs." Noting "It is all hypocrisy to talk of Petronius & yet be ashamed to confess to Fanny Hill or Harriet Wilson, [who] are chaste & clean compared with him."
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