Category: Commonplace Book (Page 2 of 2)

“Jane Eyre became an instant bestseller when it was published in 1847, but developed a reputation as a naughty book…”

independant.co.uk

Link to article which provides interesting insight into how Jane Eyre was originally perceived by the public: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/the-victorians-regarded-charlotte-bront-as-coarse-and-immoral-and-deplored-jane-eyre-a6923616.html

“Ode on Science” (1798):

The morning sun shines from the east,
And spreads his glories to the west,
All nations with the beams are blest,
Where’er the radiant light appears.

So Science spreads her lucid ray
O’er land which long in darkness lay,
She visits fair Columbia,
And sets her sons among the stars.

Jezeniah Sumner

Science in the Age of Enlightenment

“…how many things are we upon the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice and carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.” 

Shelley, pg 55