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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Henry is going on with Mansfield Park; he admires H. Crawford - I mean properly - as a clever, pleasant Man.'Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkManuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Henry Sanford - very much pleased with it - delighted with Miss Bates, but thought Mrs Elton the best-drawn Character in the Book. - Mansfield Park however, still his fa...Henry Sanford 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'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...Cassandra Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...Fanny Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I am gratified by her [Fanny Knight] having pleasure in what I write - but I wish the knowledge of my being exposed to her discerning Criticism, may not hurt my stile [s...Fanny Knight Jane Austenunidentified work in MSManuscript: novel in MS
1900-1945'I am now engaged in reading "Sense & Sensibility'. It is, undoubtedly, one of her best. Do you remember the Palmer family?'Clive Staples Lewis Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1900-1945'I am reading, ... Layard's Nineveh.'Virginia Woolf Austen Henry LayardNinevehPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - ...Sarah Harriet Burney Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I am [underlined] so [end underlining] glad you like what you have read of "Emma", and the dear old man's "Gentle selfishness". - Was there ever a happier expression? - ...Charlotte Barrett Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'I can no longer settle to fiction to anything like the extent I did before the war. Could read nothing but Jane Austen's Emma when war broke out. I read about the same a...Jane AustenEmmaPrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1700-1799'I do not wonder at your wanting to read [italics for title] first impressions again, so seldom as you have gone through it, & that so long ago.'Cassandra Austen Jane AustenFirst ImpressionsManuscript: Book in Manuscript
1900-1945'I enjoy this peaceful interval of sickness and read the works of Jane Austen, released from a fear of death which, ever present in this land of unknown diseases, s...Freya Stark Jane Austen[unknown]Print: Book
1800-1849'I had a letter from Ly. -- on Tuesday that gave me great content, for I, like you, felt a little afraid that the Lady Augusta might give offence. However, her withers ar...Louisa, Lady Stuart Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book


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