SD2480. Edward FitzGerald to William Hepworth Thompson

Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 29, 298 (in part).

Markethill, Woodbridge

July 15/61

My dear Thompson,

I was very glad to hear of you again. …

… Mrs. Browning’s Death is rather a relief to me, I must say: no more Aurora Leighs, thank God! A Woman of real Genius, I know: but what is the upshot of it all? She and her Sex had better mind the Kitchen and their Children; and perhaps the Poor: except in such things as little Novels, they only devote themselves to what Men do much better, leaving that which Men do worse or not at all. …

Publication: The Letters of Edward FitzGerald, ed. A.M. and A.B. Terhune (Princeton, 1980), 2, 407–408.

Manuscript: Trinity College, Cambridge.

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