SD1400. Charlotte Brontë to Margaret Wooler

As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 16, 289 (in part).

Haworth.

14 February 1850

My dear Miss Wooler

You told me, I remember, when I saw you last, that your sight had been injured by inflam[m]ation consequent on cold, and I am truly sorry to hear it is not yet well. …

I was, indeed, obliged to dissent on many occasions and to offend by dissenting—It seems now very much the custom to admire a certain wordy, intricate, obscure style of poetry—such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning writes—Some pieces were referred to about which Currer Bell was expected to be very rapturous—and failing in this—he disappointed. …

Publication: The Letters of Charlotte Brontë, ed. Margaret Smith (Oxford, 1995–2004), 2, 342–346.

Manuscript: Fitzwilliam Museum.

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