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| - | ''' | + | '''I wish you would not think me a woman. I wish all reviewers believed ‘Currer Bell’ [Ch.Brontë’s pseudonym] to be a man; they would be more just to him. You will, I know, keep measuring me by some standard of what you deem becoming to my sex; where I am not what you consider graceful, you will condemn me. [...] Come what will, I cannot, when I write, think always of myself and of what is elegant and charming in feminity (sic), it is not on those terms, or with such ideas, I ever took pen in hand.'''<br><br> |
| + | Letter of [http://neww.huygens.knaw.nl/authors/show/24 Charlotte Brontë] to the critic George Henry Lewes, Nov 1, 1849. <br><br><br> | ||
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| + | '''[...] To such critics I would say ‘To you I am neither man nor woman – I come before you as an author only.’'''<br><br> | ||
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Charlotte Brontë
I wish you would not think me a woman. I wish all reviewers believed ‘Currer Bell’ [Ch.Brontë’s pseudonym] to be a man; they would be more just to him. You will, I know, keep measuring me by some standard of what you deem becoming to my sex; where I am not what you consider graceful, you will condemn me. [...] Come what will, I cannot, when I write, think always of myself and of what is elegant and charming in feminity (sic), it is not on those terms, or with such ideas, I ever took pen in hand.
Letter of Charlotte Brontë to the critic George Henry Lewes, Nov 1, 1849.
[...] To such critics I would say ‘To you I am neither man nor woman – I come before you as an author only.’
Letter to W.S. Williams, Aug 16, 1849.
Ina Schabert, 1 February 2011
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