ISBN: 9781153745635

Excerpt: ...Your letter gave me pleasure, and I thank you for it. CURRER BELL. Miss Bronte went up to town at the beginning of June, and much enjoyed her stay there; seeing very few perso… More...

Excerpt: ...Your letter gave me pleasure, and I thank you for it. CURRER BELL. Miss Bronte went up to town at the beginning of June, and much enjoyed her stay there; seeing very few persons, according to the agreement she made before she went; and limiting her visit to a fortnight, dreading the feverishness and exhaustion which were the inevitable consequences of the slightest excitement upon her susceptible frame. June 12th. Since I wrote to you last, I have not had many moments to myself, except such as it was absolutely necessary to give to rest. On the whole, however, I have thus far got on very well, suffering much less from exhaustion than I did last time. Of course I cannot give you in a letter a regular chronicle of how my time has been spent. I can only-just notify. what I deem three of its chief incidents: a sight of the Duke of Wellington at the Chapel Royal (he is a real grand old man), a visit to the House of Commons (which I hope to describe to you some day when I see you), and last, not least, an interview with Mr. Thackeray. He made a morning call, and sat above two hours. Mr. Smith only was in the room the whole time. He described it afterwards as a ''queer scene,'' and-I suppose it was. The giant sate before me; I was moved to speak to him of some of his short-comings (literary of course); one by one the faults came into my head, and one by one I brought them out, and sought some explanation or defence. He did defend himself, like a great Turk and heathen; that is to say, the excuses were often worse than the crime itself. The matter ended in decent amity; if all be well, I am to dine at his house this evening. I have seen Lewes too. . . . I could not feel otherwise to him than half-sadly, half-tenderly,-a queer word that last, but I use it because the aspect of Lewes''s face almost moves me to tears; it is so wonderfully like Emily,-her eyes, her features, the very nose, the somewhat prominent mouth, the forehead, even, at moments,... Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Books, Biography and Memoir, Life Of Charlotte Bronte Volume 2 Books>Biography and Memoir, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1153745631

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ISBN: 9781153745635

Shaped by a novelist's imagination, Elizabeth Gaskell's admiring portrait of her friend (and author of JANE EYRE) Charlotte Bronte, as well as her descriptions of the people and events th… More...

Shaped by a novelist's imagination, Elizabeth Gaskell's admiring portrait of her friend (and author of JANE EYRE) Charlotte Bronte, as well as her descriptions of the people and events that caused Bronte pain or suffering reads much like the life of fictional characters of their early 19th-century time-extreme self-denial, coping with sickness and death and surviving through the strength of religious faith and moral integrity. Books, Biography & Autobiography~~General, The-life-of-Charlotte-Bront-Volume-2~~Elizabeth-Cleghorn-Gaskell, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1153745631