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#47: Rebecca Mead, staff writer, the New Yorker

Always Take Notes

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The Bronte of the North Street

Bronte first read middle march at 17 and then reread it every half decade or so. I was wondering whether you feel it's in a kind of category of one over the trawler, over all the other Victorian writers that Bronte is thinking about. It came along in my life at a moment when I was ready to receive it and stayed with me in a way that nothing else I've read has. But there are other examples of that that had really moved you or decided to do this.

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