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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learned to kn...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1800-1849'Annabella could read the new novels, "Northanger Abbey" and "Persuasion" (recommended by Augusta, and contrast that kind of real life with the kind she had learned to kn...Anne Isabella (Annabella), Baroness Byron Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ...Thomas and Florence HardyJane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ...Thomas and Florence HardyJane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1900-1945'As a summer relaxation in 1920, Thomas Hardy and his wife - he 80 years old, she half his age -- moved on to "Emma", after reading together "Persuasion" and "Northanger ...Thomas and Florence HardyJane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison libra...Stuart Wood [pseud?] Jane Austen [?][unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'As one participant recalled, "Many exceptional debates come back to mind on such subjects as Jane Austen, Charles Lamb, Victorian Novelists, George Eliot, Meredith, Pepy...Ladies' Edinburgh Debating SocietyJane AustenunknownPrint: 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'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'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality in M P - yet altogether, on account of it's [sic] pec...Captain Frank Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Cassandra - better than P. & P. - but not so well as M.P.'Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Jane AustenEmmaPrint: 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 AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.'Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles - did not like it near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'Charles Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles - did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'Charles Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Countess Craven - admired it very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she ranked as the very first of it's [sic] sort.'[Countess] Craven Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
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'Countess Morley - delighted with it.'[Countess] Morley Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Did you ever read "Emma", a novel of Miss Austen's? I have seen three or four [italics] Harriet Smiths [end italics] taken up and let down again, and you not being a [it...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Do not oblige him to read any more. - Have mercy on him and tell him the truth [about the authorship of Austen's novels] & make him an apology...he deserves better treat...Mr Wildman Jane AustennovelsPrint: Book


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