The letters come from the family and from the Wordsworth collection at Dove Cottage and are here printed (almost in full) for the first time.
They show a lively and amusing woman, kind, forthright to the extent of bluntness, especially when she takes up the cudgels in the cause of what she considers truth or justice or human kindness. Coleridge describes her in one apt and characteristic sentence:
'If Sense, Sensibility, Sweetness of Temper, perfect simplicity and unpretending Nature, joined to shrewdness and entertainingness make a valuable Woman, Sara Hutchinson is so.'
Such qualities certainly make a delightful letter-writer.
The letters come from the family and from the Wordsworth collection at Dove Cottage and are here printed (almost in full) for the first time.
They show a lively and amusing woman, kind, forthright to the extent of bluntness, especially when she takes up the cudgels in the cause of what she considers truth or justice or human kindness. Coleridge describes her in one apt and characteristic sentence:
'If Sense, Sensibility, Sweetness of Temper, perfect simplicity and unpretending Nature, joined to shrewdness and entertainingness make a valuable Woman, Sara Hutchinson is so.'
Such qualities certainly make a delightful letter-writer.
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The Letters of Sara Hutchinson
524Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781442639270 |
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Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
Publication date: | 12/15/1954 |
Series: | Heritage |
Pages: | 524 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.17(d) |