Quotes by Mary Elizabeth Brown

“My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.””

“Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, still better known to the world as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was born on March 6, 1806, the eldest child of Edward and Mary Moulton Barrett””

“She is connected by marriage with Mrs. A.T. Thompson, and from a friend of Mrs. Thompson’s it came to me, and really seems to exonerate Chapman & Hall from the charge advanced against them. ‘Mary Barton’ was shown in manuscript to Mrs. Thompson, and failed to please her;””

“A novel flashes up for a season and does not often outlast it. For ‘Mary Barton’ I am a little, little disappointed, do you know. I have just done reading it. There is power and truth”

“If you can read novels, and you have too much sense not to be fond of them, read ‘Villette.’ The scene of the greater part of it is in Belgium, and I think it a strong book. ‘Ruth,’ too, by Mrs. Gaskell, the author of ‘Mary Barton,’ has pleased me very much.””

“She heard the door close as she examined the dog."You're looking much better," she told the animal. "Good enough that Jean-Marie might be able to take you outside to wash you. Oh, don't get up."This last was said nervously as the dog climbed laboriously to his feet."Really, you shouldn't."Eve watched wide-eyed as the animal staggered toward her."Sit back down, 'please,'" she said, arms raised, but the animal either didn't know what an order was or ignored hers. He walked unsteadily right to her as Eve glanced wildly toward the closed door, hoping that Jean-Marie would make a sudden, early reappearance.And then the animal laid his big head on her knees."Oh," she said, for she had no idea what else to do. The dog was 'looking' at her with huge brown eyes, his forehead wrinkled up as though he was worried. His enormous drooping jowls were spread like a messy black skirt upon her lap, and the animal's triangular ears were back.Actually it was rather adorable.Hesitantly Eve laid her palm very gently on the beast's head.Slowly the dog's tail swayed back and forth, and he gave a great sigh.””