Aug 01
Anything like warmth or enthusiasm; anything energetic, poignant, heartfelt, is utterly out of place in commending these works…she ruffles her reader by nothing vehement, disturbs him by nothing profound: the Passions are perfectly unknown to her.
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Charlotte Brontë on Jane Austen’s writing in her letter to G.H. Lewes, January 12, 1848 (via courageousbone)
I love Charlotte Brontë, but… she lived in a tiny house in the middle of nowhere and we know pretty much every book she ever read in her life, her choices were so limited.
And Austen might not know passion (although I think she does— look at Persuasion!) but Brontë had trouble keeping hers from dominating her books.
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