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

	1900-1945	'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; both dear Mr Knightley and Mr John Knightley seem so f...	Gwen Raverat	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'	George Eliot [pseud]	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'read "Emma" in the evening.'	George Eliot (pseud)	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: 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 Austen	Persuasion	Print: 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 Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: 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 Austen	Persuasion	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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 Austen	Sense and Sensibility	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties. Fanny is a delightful Chracter! and Aunt Norris is...	Francis William Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether. Liked the character of Fanny. Admired the Portsmouth Scene.' - Mr K.	Edward Austen Knight	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased wi...	Edward Knight	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Edward & George. - Not liked it near so well as P.& P. - Edward admired Fanny - George disliked her. - George interested by nobody but Mary Crawford. - Edward pleased wi...	George Knight	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Fanny Knight. - Liked it, in many parts, very much indeed, delighted with Fanny; - but not satisfied with the end - wanting more Love between her & Edmund - & could not ...	Fanny Knight	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Anna liked it better than P.& P. - but not so well as S.&S. - could not bear Fanny. - Delighted with Mrs Norris, the scene at Portsmouth, & all the humourous [sic] parts...	Anna Lefroy	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs James Austen, very much pleased. Enjoyed Mrs Norris particularly, & the scene at Portsmouth. Thought Henry Crawford's going off with Mrs Rushworth, very natural.'	Anne Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Clewes's objections [to Mansfield Park] much the same as Fanny's [Fanny Knight]'.	[Miss] Clewes	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Lloyd preferred it altogether to either of the others [Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility]. - Delighted with Fanny. - Hated Mrs Norris'.	Martha Lloyd	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My Mother - not liked it so well as P. & P. - Thought Fanny insipid. Enjoyed Mrs. Norris.'	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P. - Fond of Fanny. - Delighted much in Mr Rushworth's stupidity.'	Cassandra Elizabeth Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book

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