review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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The Brontes: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence
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          <ptr target="ukred-28553">Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 3 March 1848:
&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
"I have received the ""Christian Remembrancer,"" and read the review. It is written with some 
ability &amp;mdash; but, to do justice was evidently not the critic"s main object; therefore he excuses 
himself from performing that duty.
&lt;br/&gt;
"I daresay the reviewer imagines that [italics]Currer Bell[end italics] ought to be extremely 
afflicted, very much cut up by some smart things he says: this however is not the case. 
C. Bell is, on the whole, rather encouraged than dispirited by the review: the hard-wrung 
praise extorted reluctantly from a foe is the most precious praise of all; you are sure that 
this, at least, has no admixture of flattery. I fear he has too high an opinion of my abilities 
and of what I can do; but that is his own fault. In other respects, he aims his shafts in the 
dark, and the success, or rather, ill success of his hits makes me laugh rather than cry. His 
shafts of sarcasm are nicely polished, keenly pointed; he should not have wasted them in 
shooting at a mark he cannot see.
&lt;br/&gt;
"I hope such reviews will not make much difference with me; and that if the spirit moves me 
in future to say anything about priests &amp;amp;c. I shall say it with the same freedom as heretofore."</ptr>
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