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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Hartley Coleridge, 10 December 1840: 'I am sorry Sir I did not exist forty or fifty years ago when the "Lady's magazine" was flourishing like a green ...Charlotte Bronte The Lady's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'Currer Bell [ie Charlotte Bronte]'s book [The Professor] found acceptance nowhere ... he tried one ...Charlotte Bronte Letter from Smith, Elder & Co., publishersManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 22 November 1848: '"The North American Review" [containing reviews of the Bronte sisters' works in which the authors are presu...Charlotte Bronte The North American ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 16 August 1849: '"The North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about E. Wyndham, J. Eyre, and F....Charlotte Bronte The North British ReviewPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 1 November 1849: 'I have just received the "Daily News." [containing review of "Shirley"] ... when I read it my heart sickened...Charlotte Bronte The Daily NewsPrint: Newspaper
1800-1849Elizabeth Gaskell, "Life of Charlotte Bronte" (1857): '[Charlotte Bronte's] hosts [in London] took pleasure in showing her the sights of London. On one of the days which...Charlotte Bronte The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 23 October 1850: ' .. my late occupation left a result for some days and indeed still, very painful. The reading over of papers, the ren...Charlotte Bronte Bronte family papersManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'she [Charlotte Bronte] was very angry indeed with that part of the Examiner review of Esmond (I had forgotten it) which said his [Thackeray's] works would not live; and ...Charlotte Bronte Examiner [review of Thackeray's 'Henry Esmond']Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899[Gaskell relates how Charlotte Bronte presented her father with 'Jane Eyre'] ''May I read you some reviews.' So she read them; and then she asked him if he would read the...Charlotte Bronte [reviews of Jane Eyre]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:] 'Last Sunday I took up my Bible in a gloomy frame of mind; I began to...Charlotte Bronte BiblePrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on her struggles with religious melancholy, 20 February 1837:] 'Last Sunday I took up my Bible in a gloomy frame of mind; I began to...Charlotte Bronte 'life of a certain French nobleman'Print: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, in postscript to letter of 7 April 1840:] 'Mr [William] Weightman [curate at Haworth] has given another lecture at the Keighley Mech...Charlotte Bronte reports of lectures by William Weightman and Patri...Print: Newspaper
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to William Wordsworth (in draft response to letter from him of c.1840):] 'I am sorry I did not exist, sir, fifty or sixty years ago, when the "Ladies...Charlotte Bronte The Lady's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 20 August 1840:] 'I have got another bale of French books from Gomersal -- containing upwards of 40 volumes -- I have read about hal...Charlotte Bronte 'French books'Print: Book
1800-1849'Of Charlotte Bronte's sojourn at Upperwood House, Rawdon, there is only one slight record apart from her letters. It is contained in a communication to the Westminster G...Charlotte Bronte  Print: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Constantin Heger (in source eds' translation from French), 24 July 1844:] 'I greatly fear that I shall forget French [...] To avoid such a misfort...Charlotte Bronte French book/sPrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 26 October 1847:] 'I have received the newspapers. They speak quite as favourably of ...Charlotte Bronte Review of Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre"Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publishers Messrs Smith, Elder and Co., 26 October 1847:] 'I have received the newspapers. They speak quite as favourably of ...Charlotte Bronte Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane EyrePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher W. S. Williams, 28 October 1847:] 'The "Weekly Chronicle" seems inclined to identify me with Mrs Marsh. I never had...Charlotte Bronte Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane EyrePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher W. S. Williams, 28 October 1847:] 'I have just received the "Tablet" and the "Morning Advertiser." Neither paper se...Charlotte Bronte Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane EyrePrint: Serial / periodical


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