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

	1900-1945	'I am rather surprised at your remark about "Persuasion", as it seemed to me very good — though not quite in her usual manner. I mean it is more romantic and less hum...	Clive Staples Lewis	Jane Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	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	"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-Leigh	A Memoir of Jane Austen	Print: Book
	1900-1945	' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts of life" (Jane Austen's "Elinor and Edward"). My Go...	Katherine Mansfield	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jane Austen	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu...	William Wordsworth	Jane Austen	unknown	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr G...	Blanche Ridges	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr G...	Charles Stansfield	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr G...	Sylvanus A. Reynolds	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr G...	Elizabeth Edminson and Allan Goadby	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1900-1945	'A paper was then read by Mrs Goadby on Jane Austen followed by readings from her novels by Mrs Ridges, C.E. Stansfield, S.A. Reynolds & a duologue by Mrs Edminson & Mr G...	Lilian Goadby	Jane Austen		Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Accept my sincere thanks for the pleasure your Volumes have given me: in the perusal of them I felt a great inclination to write & say so.'	James Stanier Clarke	Jane Austen	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Adml Foote - surprised that I had the power of drawing the Portsmouth-Scenes so well.'	[Admiral] Foote	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on one topic.'	William Charles Macready	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Alethea Bigg. - "I have read M.P. & heard it very much talked of, very much praised. I like it myself & think it very good indeed, but as I never say what I do not thin...	Alethea Bigg	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". That young lady had a talent for describing the involv...	Sir Walter Scott	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'And Mr Hastings - I am quite delighted with what such a Man writes about it ["Pride and Prejudice"]. - Henry sent him the Books after his return from Daylesford.'	Warren Hastings	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anna liked it better than P.& P. - but not so well as S.&S. - could not bear Fanny. - Delighted with Mrs Norris, the scene at Portsmouth, & all the humourous [sic] parts...	Anna Lefroy	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny'	Anna Austen	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny.'	Anna Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book

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