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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'My dear Anna - I am very much obliged to you for sending your M.S. [a story by Anna Austen that remained unfinished and has never been published] It has entertained me e...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'We have just finished the 1st of the 3 Books I had the pleasure of receiving yesterday; I read it aloud - & we are all very much amused, & like the work quite as well as...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Now we have finished the 2d book - or rather the 5th - I do think you had better omit Lady Helena's postscript; - to those who are acquainted with P. & P it will seem an...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'We are reading the last book. - They must be two days going from Dawlish to Bath; They are nearly 100 miles apart'.Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'My dear Anna, I hope you do not depend on having your book back again immediately. I keep it that your G:Mama may hear it - for it has not been possible yet to have any...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Thursday. We finished it last night, after our return from drinking tea at the Great House. - The last Chapter does not please us quite so well, we do not thoroughly lik...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'We have been very much amused by your 3 books, but I have a good many criticisms to make - more than you will like [extensive criticism of the MS follows]... You are now...Jane Austen Anna Austen[unpublished story]Manuscript: Sheet
1900-1945'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'Virginia Woolf Austen Henry LayardNinevehPrint: Book
1800-1849'My dear Caroline, I wish I could finish Stories as fast as you can. - I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, & think you have done for her very well; but the ...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'I have been very much entertained by your story of Carolina & her aged Father, it made me laugh heartily, & I am particularly glad to find you so much alive upon any top...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shift. I could forgive her any follies in English, rath...Jane Austen Caroline Austenunpublished manuscript storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'Uncle Henry writes very superior Sermons. You & I must try to get hold of one or two & put them into our Novels; it would be a fine help to a volume; & we could make our...Jane Austen Henry AustenSermonsPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Life of Jane Austen. Unpacked.'Verena Vera Pennefather James Austen-LeighA Memoir of Jane AustenPrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward is writing a Novel - we have all heard what he has written - it is extremely clever; written with great ease & spirit; - if he can carry it on in the same way, it...Jane Austen James Edward Austenunpublished storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849'[James Edward Austen] read his two Chapters to us the first Evening; - both good - but especially the last in our opinion. We think it has more of the Spirit & Entertain...James Edward Austen James Edward Austenunpublished manuscript storyManuscript: Sheet
1800-1849"Jane Austen herself, the Queen of novelists, the immortal creator of Anne Elliott, Mr Knightley, and a score or two more of unrivalled intimate friends of the whole publ...Harriet Martineau James Edward Austen-LeighA Memoir of Jane AustenPrint: Book
1800-1849'We did not begin reading [the proof-sheets of "Mansfield Park"] till Bentley Green. Henry's approbation hitherto is even equal to my wishes; he says it is very differen...Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkManuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Princess Charlotte wrote of reading as a "great passion"; in a poignant attempt to construct bourgeois domestic intimacy in the dysfunctional household of the divorced P...Princess Charlotte Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1900-1945'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"....Flora Thompson Jane Austen Print: Book


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