Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written “Pride and Prejudice” or “Tom Jones”, than any of the Waverley Novels? I had not seen “Pride and Prejudice” till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a commonplace face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses. These observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run the risk.
— Charlotte Brontë On Jane Austen, in a Letter to G.H. Lewes, January 12, 1848 (via enchants)
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    oh snap! this would be blowin up on twitter if it were taking place in the present.
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    but Brontë makes
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    And this is why I prefer Brontë over Austen. *bows out*
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    Snarky! Accurate! Elegant!
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    I LOVE it when Bronte gets fired up like this…and yes, Jane Eyre was my first love before Pride and Prejudice, so I’m a...
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