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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1900-1945'In the mornings in bed I am going over "Sense and Sensibility" again — which I had nearly forgotten. Do you remember Mrs Jennings and Marianne Dashwood and the rest?'Clive Staples Lewis Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: 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 AustenMansfield ParkPrint: 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 AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 2...What I chiefly admire in Jane Austen is that what she promises, she performs, i.e. if Sir T. is to arrive, we have his arrival at length, and it's excellent ...Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945'January 5... J. and I read "Mansfield Park" with great enjoyment. I wonder if J. [Middleton Murry] is as content as he appears? It seems too good to be true.'Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady Gordon wrote "In most novels you are amused for the time with a set of Ideal People whom you never think of afterwards or whom you in the least expect to meet in co...Lady Gordon Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady Rob: Kerr wrote - "You may be assured I read every line with the greatest interest & am more delighted with it than my humble pen can express. The excellent deline...Lady Robert Kerr Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady Robert is delighted with P & P - and really [italics] was [end italics] so as I understand before she knew who wrote it - for, of course, she knows now.'Lady Robert Kerr Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Many thanks for the loan of "Emma", which, even amidst languor and depression, forced from me a smile, & afforded me much amusement'. Sarah Harriet Burney Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1900-1945'Marjory Todd read [the books of Hesba Stretton, Mrs O.F. Walton and Amy le Feuvre but felt later that] "I would not now willingly expose a child of mine to the morbid re...Marjory Todd Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mary Cooke - quite as much pleased with it, as her Father & Mother; seemed to enter into Lady B.'s character, & enjoyed Mr Rushworth's folly. Admired Fanny in general, ...Mary Cooke Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
2. The Treasurer ...		Margaret Dilks Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40
A. B. Dilks in the chair.
1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved.
2. The Treasurer ...		Margaret Dilks Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set fairly at it & read half the 1st vol. to her - prefa...Jane Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Bigg - not equal to either P & P. - or M.P. - objected to the sameness of the subject (Match-making) all through. - Too much of Mr Elton & H. Smith. Language super...[Miss] Bigg Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Bigg - on reading it a second time, liked Miss Bates much better than at first, & expressed herself as liking all the people of Highbury in general, except Harriet ...Miss Bigg Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Burdett - Did not like it so well as P. & P.'[Miss] Burdett Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Burdett - Did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'[Miss] Burdett Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Burrel - admired it very much - particularly Mrs Norris & Dr Grant.'[Miss] Burrel Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book


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