1703097052000 1703080275000 Standard Record object-110009990 1747159882692 1704299014000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-110009990 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009990 6081abcf-6582-3f3b-991a-e3f8bbb06365 3 person reference agent-207469 adlib-agent-207469 9ae94b11-d1a3-3ff0-be02-529c75bd6aa1 Nussey, Ellen person reference agent-207480 adlib-agent-207480 0785a1f9-601a-3fa6-9cc2-20f099599e2a Smith, George Murray person reference agent-166700 adlib-agent-166700 7de168af-4ca7-39df-9b2d-9c0f25b40746 Gaskell, Elizabeth person reference agent-195789 adlib-agent-195789 5958c09f-246c-318c-9129-8a69e1d68e68 Martineau, Harriet Length mm 176 Width mm 111 Leaf 2 Length mm 177 Width mm 111 Leaf 1 content description This is a letter written from Haworth, Yorkshire by Charlotte Brontë to Miss Margaret Wooler, dated April 13 1853. The letter is 2 leaves (bifold leaf 1) mounted separately in the volume. Leaf 2 has an uneven edge where Brontë presumably halved the paper. Leaf 1 has been numbered 21 in the upper right-hand corner according to chronology and its order in the volume. Leaf 2 follows on after Leaf 1 but is unnumbered. Brontë apologises for the delay in responding to Miss Wooler's last letter. She says that her publishers seem satisfied with the reception to 'Villette' and adds that the majority of reviews have been 'favourable enough'. She does not however that 'Currer Bell' has been criticised by some for 'remarks on Romanism', in publications such as the 'Guardian', the 'English Churchman' and 'The Christian Remembrancer'. She adds that the work has also been criticised by Harriet Martineau and that this criticism has been so 'strangely and unexpectedly acrimonious – that I have gathered courage to tell her that the gulf of mutual difference between her and me is so wide and deep – the bridge of union so slight and uncertain – I have come to the conclusion that frequent intercourse would be most perilous and unadvisable’. She has put off her visit to Martineau, who is 'very angry' and Brontë is aware that 'her bitterness will not be short-lived, but it cannot be helped'. Mr William Wooler has been in touch regarding advice on publication however Brontë says 'in these days of headlong competition - it is a great risk to publish'. On Leaf 2, Brontë writes that she intends to visit Manchester the following week to see Mrs. Gaskell. Ellen Nussey is unlikely to visit Yarmouth and Brontë invites Miss Wooler to visit Haworth before she goes to the seaside, emphasising that such a visit would be appreciated by all in the household. As noted in the typescript note of contents enclosed with the volume (Brontë(C)/37), Sir Clifford Allbut has added a note giving a short biography of William Wooler, Miss Wooler's eldest brother, at the top of Leaf 1. A full edition of this letter can be found in Margaret Smith's 'The Letters of Charlotte Brontë', Vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2004), pp. 154-155. Brontë(C)/21 1 accession number Brontë(C)/21 110009990 priref 110009990 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009990 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110009990 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 1853 1853 1853-04-13 reference agent-18451 adlib-agent-18451 44ea0a4f-41b1-397c-9880-2ace1de3d0df Brontë, Charlotte MS Letter, Brontë to Margaret Wooler object OBJECT