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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
1850-1899'Rose... remembers her father reading to them - Dickens, Scott, Robinson Crusoe, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Meredith, Tom Jones, The Three Musketeers, Don Quixote, and, cu...George Macaulay 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...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 GoadbyJane 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
1800-1849Tuesday, 18 September 1827: 'Whiled away the evening over one of Miss Austen's Novels; there is a truth of painting in her writings which always delights me. They do n...Walter Scott Jane Austen Print: Book
1900-1945'The truth is that every true admirer of the novels cherishes the happy thought that he alone — reading between the lines — has become the secret friend of th...Katherine Mansfield Jane Austen Print: Book
1850-1899'For the first time we seem to hear the echo of the voice, and to see the picture of the unknown friend who has charmed us so long... So we gladly welcome one more glimps...Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie Jane Austen 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-LeighA Memoir of Jane AustenPrint: Book
1900-1945'Read Life of Jane Austen. Unpacked.'Verena Vera Pennefather James Austen-LeighA Memoir of Jane AustenPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ...Thomas and Florence HardyJane AustenEmmaPrint: 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 AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure ... I have likewise read one of Miss Aust...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; both dear Mr Knightley and Mr John Knightley seem so f...Gwen Raverat Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899'read "Emma" in the evening.'George Eliot (pseud) Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality in M P - yet altogether, on account of it's [sic] pec...Captain Frank Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs F.A. - liked & admired it very much indeed, but must still prefer P & P.'[Mrs Francis] Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs J. Bridges - preferred it to all the others.'[Mrs J.] Bridges Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book


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