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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
1800-1849Tuesday, 14 March 1826: 'I have amused myself occasionally very pleasantly during the few last days by reading over Lady Morgan's novel of O'Donnel which has some st...Walter Scott Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the family circle.'Walter Scott Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'[J. G.] Lockhart says that [Scott] used to read aloud from Emma and Northanger Abbey to the family circle.'Walter Scott Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: 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
1800-1849William Gifford to John Murray (1815): 'I have for the first time looked into "Pride and Prejudice;" and it is really a very pretty thing. No dark passages; no secre...Wiliam Gifford Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849William Gifford to John Murray, 29 September 1815: 'I have read "Pride and Prejudice [italics]again[end italics] -- 'tis very good -- wretchedly printed, and so poin...Wiliam Gifford Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849William Gifford to John Murray, 29 September 1815: 'I have read "Pride and Prejudice [italics]again[end italics] -- 'tis very good -- wretchedly printed, and so poin...Wiliam Gifford Jane AustenEmmaManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849The Marchioness of Abercorn to John Murray (1817-18): 'Pray send us Miss Austen's novels the moment you can. Lord Abercorn thinks them next to W. Scott's (if they [i.e...Lord Abercorn Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book
1800-1849Quoted from Mrs Maxwell Scott: 'My cousin, Baroness von Appell (grand-daughter of Sir Walter [Scott]'s brother Thomas) will be one of those most interested in these le...Eliza Scott Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to George Henry Lewes, 12 January 1848:

'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say tha...		Charlotte Brontë Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
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1900-1945		'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy...Ladies' Edinburgh Debating SocietyJane AustenunknownPrint: Book
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1900-1945		E. M. Forster, "Jane Austen," in Abinger Harvest (1924): 'She is my favourite author! I read and re-read, the mouth open and the mind closed.'Edward Morgan Forster Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
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
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
1850-1899'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'George Eliot [pseud] Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1850-1899'read "Emma" in the evening.'George Eliot (pseud) Jane AustenEmmaPrint: 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
1850-1899'There was a novel about young women, which I think now must have been "Sense and Sensibility": I could make nothing of it, but this did not keep me from reading it.'Edwin Muir Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book


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