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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	'Your Anne is dreadful - . But nothing offends me so much as the absurdity of not being able to pronounce the word Shift. I could forgive her any follies in English, rath...	Jane Austen	Caroline Austen	unpublished manuscript story	Manuscript: Sheet
	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 Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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 Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Your official opinion of the Merits of "Emma", is very valuable & satisfactory.'	John Murray	Jane Austen	Emma	Manuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
	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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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...	Arthur Hallam	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: 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 Austen	Emma	Print: 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 Austen	Persuasion	Print: 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 Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: 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 Austen	Persuasion	Print: 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 Austen	Emma	Print: 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 Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'[James Edward Austen] read his two Chapters to us the first Evening; - both good - but especially the last in our opinion. We think it has more of the Spirit & Entertain...	James Edward Austen	James Edward Austen	unpublished manuscript story	Manuscript: Sheet
	1700-1799 1800-1849	'[Jane Austen] talked freely of her works among her friends, listened to criticism with patient docility, and read her tales aloud with great effect, "and they were nev...	Jane Austen	Jane Austen	fiction writings	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...	Philip Inman	Jane Austen	[novels]	Print: Book
	1850-1899	1 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	1 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 Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1850-1899	1 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 Austen	Persuasion	Print: Book
	1850-1899	1 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 Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book

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