SD1647. Mary Russell Mitford to William Cox Bennett
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 19, 366 (in part).
Swallowfield
25 April 1853
My dear friend,
Will you have the infinite kindness to send the enclosed letters to America by post …
I have not seen Villette which I wish to see—Mrs. Browning’s plan seems to me bad because so many trashy novels have taken the same line, and because blank verse gets heavy and tiresome unless broken into dialogue as in the drama– …
Publication: None traced.
Source: Typescript at Berkshire Record Office.
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