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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Sir J. Langham - thought it much inferior to the others.'Sir J. Langham Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.'Francis Jeffrey Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Murden - certainly inferior to all the others.'[Miss] Murden Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Capt C. Austen wrote - "Emma arrived in time to a moment. I am delighted with her, more so I think than even with my favourite Pride & Prejudice, & have read it three t...Charles Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs D. Dundas - thought it very clever, but did not like it so well as either of the others.'Janet Whitley-Deans-Dundas Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish "Pride and Prejudice". This novel I consider as one of the most excellent of the works of our female novelists. Its me...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'In the evening read the last volume of "Emma", a novel evincing great good sense, and an acute observation of human life, but it is not interesting. One cares little fo...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I was reading yesterday and to-day "Sense and Sensibility", which I resumed at the second volume. The last volume greatly improves on the first, but I still think it one...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen. They a...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'I went on with "Persuasion", finished it, began "Northanger Abbey", which I have now finished. These two novels have sadly reduced my estimation of Miss Austen. They a...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849'By the way did you know Miss Austen Authoress of some novels which have a great deal of nature in them - nature in ordinary and middle life to be sure but valuable from ...Sir Walter Scott Jane Austen[novels]Print: Book
1800-1849'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". That young lady had a talent for describing the involv...Sir Walter Scott Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
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 AustenunknownPrint: 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 AustenunknownPrint: 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 AustenEmmaPrint: 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 AustenunknownPrint: 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 AustenunknownPrint: 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 AustenEmmaPrint: 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 AustenEmmaPrint: Book


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