SD2006. Lydia Maria Child to Sarah Blake Shaw
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 259 (in part).
Wayland,
Dec. 8th 1856.
… I am greatly delighted with Mrs. Browning’s Aurora Leigh. It is full of strong things; and brilliant things, and beautiful things. And how glad I am, to see modern literature tending so much toward the breaking down of social distinctions! …
Publication: The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, ed. Patricia G. Holland and Milton Meltzer, Kraus Microform, Millwood, New York, 1980, letter 964.
Manuscript: Harvard University.
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