| Description | (Includes compliment to recipient ("you seem to me the most sensitive person whom I have ever known … In a general way poets are hard enough - that is to say selfish"; comments on John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, Madame Dudevant, and Harriet Martineau; comments on women's desire for social advancement and "to do good in new ways" ("love of excitement & pure vanity … the desire of personal distinction which begins to come on when youth goes off, & sends single women to pester the mistress of a National School, & distribute tracts throughout the Parish"); and on the effects of conversion to Catholicism.) |