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 BRONTIE‘, CHARLOTTE (1816-1855).
Author. Hamorth.

A.L.S. to Ellen Nussey. 7 Feb.1850.
bp.(double sheet, octave.)

writing to her confidant, Miss Bronte
oastigates Joseph Taylor and Amelia
Ringrose's father as a pair of jaded
worldlings, but later in the letter she
asks Ellen to burn her letter-"it is
written under excitement." The gallOping
prose Shows Charlotte Bronte in her most
dictatorial feminist mood. A dishonest
text of this letter appeared in Clement
Shorter's The Brontes - Life and Letters
(1908),,11, 113, where it figures as Letter

bl. Ellen Nussey; Amelia Ringrose, Mary
Taylor, and Charlotte Bronte (whose real

name was Prunty) were old school friends.
This letter discusses the love affair between
Amelia and Joseph Taylor, was Mary's brother,
and evidently something of a Victorian

blade.

 

 Febo7 - 50
Dear Ellen

I return Amelia's letter. The business is a
most unpleasant one to be concerned in -

it seems to me now altogether unworthy in

its beginning, progress and probable ending.
Amelia is the only pure thing about it; She
stands between her coarse father and cold
unloving suitor like innocence between a
pair of worldéhardened knaves; The comparison
seems rather hard to be applied to J. T.

but as I see him now he merits it.

If J.T. has no means of keeping a wife - if he
does not possess a Sixpence he is sure of,

how can he think of marrying a woman from whom

he cannot expect she should work to keep herself ?

J.T.'s want of candour, the twice falsified
account he gave of the matter tells painfully

and deeply against him - It Shows a glimpse of

his hidden motives such as I refrain from
describing in words. It giVes a cast of

strangely heatless calculation to the whole

proceeding - a cast of which himself was conscious,

but which ~ knowing how we Should judge it - be
carefully and jealously veiled from us. After

all J.T. is perhaps only like the majority of

men: certainly those men who lead a gay life in

their youth and arrive at middle age with feelings

blunted and passions exhausted can have but one aim
in marriage - the selfish advancement of their

interest; and to think that such men take as
"wifes" cancelled] wives - as second selves -

women young, modest, sincere, pure in heart and

life, with feelings all fresh and emotions all

 

 BRONTE, CHARLOTTE

unworn, and bind such virtue and vitality to their
own withered existence - such sincerity to their

own hollowness - such disinterestedness to their own.
haggard avarice - to think this - troubles the

soul to its imhost depths. Nature and Justice
forbid the bans of such wedlock.

Burn this note the minute you have re ad it - it is
written under excitement - Amelis's letter seems

to have lifted so fraudulent a veil, and to show
both Father and suitor lurking behind in shadow

so dark; acting from motives so poor and low -

so conscious of each others littleness - consequently
so destitute of mutual respect. These things

incense me - but I shall cool down. I am glad

your mother ["is” cancelled] continues better -

'goO‘d bye

Thursday 0.3mm;

One good thing can still be said of J .T. it

seems he was candid to Mr Ringrose - he

explained his circmnstances truthfully.

The germs of all good are not extipated-but

I feel as if henceforth however he may seem on any
occasion to do and to be what is admirable - I
shall never venture to admire, because I shall
never know how far he is sincere.