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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 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 Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.'[Mrs] Wroughton Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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
1800-1849Harriet 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
1800-1849'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set fairly at it & read half the 1st vol. to her - prefa...Jane Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to my Mother's too rapid way of getting on - & tho' sh...Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...Cassandra Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...Fanny Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady Robert is delighted with P & P - and really [italics] was [end italics] so as I understand before she knew who wrote it - for, of course, she knows now.'Lady Robert Kerr Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles; in every new work your mind seems to increase its e...Prince Regent Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollection of me, which will procure me the pleasure of he...Countess of Morley Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 6 July 1843: 'Mr Kenyon came yesterday -- & he had just been reading, he said, "Pride & Prejudice", .. driven into making ...John Kenyon Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yes I [underlined] have [end underlining] read the book you speak of, "Pride & Prejudice", and I could quite rave about it! How well you define one of its characterestic...Sarah Harriet Burney Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'[Anne Isabella Milbanke] read a great deal [during season of 1813], among her books being one called Pride and Prejudice, "which is at present the fashionable novel. It ...Anne Isabella Milbanke Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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
1800-1849William 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


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