| Description | (Includes comments on Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, ("powerful but terribly coarse & unpleasant - too coarse to be written by a man or a lady … the authoress makes the reader share Jane's preference of the sinner to the saint - indeed I think the odious selfish missionary the best done thing in the book"); Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton ("full of power & of feeling - but very painful - reading it is like going through a nervous fever"); and Edward Bulwer Lytton's King Arthur ("a long poem of which the interest never flags … finished and graceful … although we shall always feel that Bulwer [Lytton] is rather a poet made than a poet born"). |