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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 AustenPersuasionPrint: 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 AustenPersuasionPrint: 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 AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen. They a...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: 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
1800-1849'[During summer 1831] Hallam was at Hastings [...] After his holiday Hallam returned to his reading of law, and enjoyed "the old fellow Blackstone," culling for Alfred [T...Alfred Tennyson Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'[From New Year, 1818] Annabella could read the new novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (recommended by Augusta [Leigh]), and contrast that kind of real life with the...Anne Isabella Lady Byron Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1850-18991 July 1876, from Brussels: 'I have been studiously reading four of Miss Austen's novels, incited thereto by Macaulay's praise, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, ...Lady Charlotte Schreiber Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
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 AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1900-1945I have read the whole of Jane Austen and think of beginning over again. What a perfect woman - not only a writer - and what a sham she makes all this female emancip...Freya Stark Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I cannot help the oozing forth of my Io triumphe?although it is by no means my dearest friend, my turn for writing. Mr Kenyon came yesterday - & he had just been readin...Mr Kenyon Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish "Pride and Prejudice". This novel I consider as one of the most excellent of the works of our female novelists. Its me...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written "Pride and Prejudice" or "Tom Jones", t...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
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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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...'Francis William Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book


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