SD2029. William Bell Scott to Thomas Woolner
As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 23, 264 (in part).
Newcastle
December 22, 1856.
My dear Woolner,
I have just learned by a letter from Lady Trevelyan that you are to do something for the …
We are now reading “Aurora Leigh.” You say there is in it the finest writing Mrs. Browning has ever done. I quite agree with you it is superb in writing, and makes other poets seem parched and poor, but after all it is a novel in verse, another Jane Eyre. …
Text: Amy Woolner, Thomas Woolner, R.A., Sculptor and Poet: His Life in Letters (London, 1917), pp. 126–127.
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