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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.'[Mrs] Leigh Perrot Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Countess Craven - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very first of it's [sic] sort.'[Countess] Craven Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'[Mrs] Digweed Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'[Mrs] Digweed Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'[Mrs] Digweed Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all'.Harriet Moore Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'[Mrs] Brandreth Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'[Mrs] Brandreth Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'[Mrs] Brandreth Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it ["Emma"] to M.P - but like[d] M.P. least of all.'[Mrs] Lefroy Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it ["Emma"] very much, better than M.P.'[Mrs] Lutley Sclater Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.'[Mrs] Wroughton Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945[List of books read in 1945]: 'For Whom the Bell Tolls; Henry Brocken; Doctor Faustus; Life of the Bee; The Screwtape Letters; Modern Short Stories; Letters of People in...Hilary Spalding Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'She read a great deal, among her books being one called "Pride and Prejudice", "Which is at present the fashionable novel. It is written by a sister of Charlotte Smith's...Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learned to kn...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learned to kn...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1850-1899The elderly Harriet Martineau reflects upon her altered reading capacity: 'I could not now read "Lalla Rookh" through before breakfast, as I did when it appeared. I cann...Harriet Martineau Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Read "Pride and Prejudice" again last night. I think it as clever as before.'Harriet Martineau Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finished "Pride and Prejudice." It is wonderfully clever,...Harriet Martineau Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 11 January 1838: 'Read "Northanger Abbey." Capital: found two touches of pathos.'Harriet Martineau Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book


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