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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient docility, and read her tales aloud with great effect, "and they were nev...	Jane Austen	Jane Austen	fiction writings	Print: Book
	1700-1799	'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone through it, & that so long ago.'	Cassandra Austen	Jane Austen	First Impressions	Manuscript: Book in Manuscript
	1700-1799	'I would not let Martha [Lloyd] read First Impressions [later published as "Pride and Prejudice"] again upon any account, & am very glad that I did not leave it in your p...	Martha Lloyd	Jane Austen	First Impressions	Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
	1800-1849 1850-1899	" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a very small number of typographical errors."	Thomas Babington Macaulay	Jane Austen	novels	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" - read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensib...	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't c...	Samuel Langhorne Clemens	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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 Austen	Mansfield Park	Manuscript: 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 Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...	Catherine Hutton	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ...	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in h...	Elizabeth Barrett	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...	Elizabeth Barrett	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...	Elizabeth Barrett	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just bel...	Elizabeth Barrett	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just bel...	Elizabeth Barrett	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book

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