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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	'There is no book which that word ["vulgaire"] would suit so little... Every village could furnish matter for a novel to Jane Austen. She did not need the common material...	Sir James Mackintosh	Jane Austen	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You mention Miss Austen; her novels are more true to nature, and have (for my sympathies) passages of finer feeling than any others of this age.'	Robert Southey	Jane Austen	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'You surprise me greatly by what you say of "Emma" and the other books. They enjoy the highest reputation, and I own, for my part, I was delighted with them. I fear the...	Edward Bulwer Lytton	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu...	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Jane Austen	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'...Jane Austen, who, if not the greatest, is surely the most faultless of female novelists. My uncle Southey and my father had an equally high opinion of her merits, bu...	William Wordsworth	Jane Austen	unknown	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been reading "Emma". Everything Miss Austen writes is clever, but I desiderate something. There is a want of [italics] body [close italics] to the story. The a...	John Henry Newman	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am amusing myself with Miss Austin's [sic] novels. She has great power and discrimination in delineating common-place people; and her writings are a capital picture o...	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Jane Austen	[novels]	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished Miss Austen's "Emma", which amused me very much, impressing me with a high opinion of her powers of drawing and sustaining character, though not satisfying me a...	William Charles Macready	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'After dinner read a part of "Northanger Abbey", which I do not much like. Heavy, and too long a strain of irony on one topic.'	William Charles Macready	Jane Austen	Northanger Abbey	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the pleasant authoress's books; it deals too much in desc...	William Charles Macready	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, leaving some opportunities for most interesting and ...	William Charles Macready	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" - read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensib...	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K.	Edward Austen Knight	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'	Edward Knight	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'	George Knight	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny.'	Anna Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny'	Anna Austen	Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: Book

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