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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, on life as a teacher at Miss Wooler's school, Dewsbury Moor, June 1837:] 'My life since I saw you last has passed on as monotonously...Charlotte Bronte Thomas PriceMemoir of William WilberforcePrint: Book
1800-1849

[Charlotte Brontė to the grandson of Henry James Mercier, 1 June 1848:]


'I have read 2,500 with pleasure. It is a very clever and ingenious production, ...

Charlotte Brontė Henry James MercierMemoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five HundredPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 5 April 1849:

'The Cornhill books are still our welcome and congenial resource while Anne [sister, in terminal decline] i...		Charlotte Brontė Thomas CarlyleMiscellaniesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I'm glad she [Charlotte Bronte] likes 'North and South'. I did not think Margaret was so over good. What would Miss B. say to Florence Nightingale? I can't imagine!'Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth GaskellNorth and SouthPrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 29 March 1849: 'I read your kind note to Anne and she wishes me to thank you sincerely for your friendly proposal.'Charlotte Bronte Ellen NusseynoteManuscript: Letter
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 16 March 1850: 'I return Mr Thornton Hunt's note after reading it carefully.'Charlotte Bronte Thornton HuntNoteManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 2 April 1841: 'If you think I'm going to refuse your invitation ... you're mistaken -- as soon as I read your shabby little note -- I ga...Charlotte Bronte Ellen NusseyNote inviting Charlotte Bronte on visitManuscript: Letter
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Mrs Smith (mother of her publisher George Smith), 17 April 1851: 'Before I received your note, I was nursing a comfortable and complacent conviction t...Charlotte Bronte Mrs SmithNote to Charlotte BronteManuscript: Letter
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to Richard Hengist Horne, 15 December 1847: 'You will have thought me strangely tardy in acknowledging your courteous present, but th...Charlotte Bronte Richard Hengist HorneOrionPrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte, Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell, 1850: 'One day, in the autumn of 1845, I accidentally lighted on an MS. volume of verse in my sister Emily...Charlotte Bronte Emily BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, September 1848: ' ... of ["Ellis Bell's" poetry's] merit I am deeply convinced, and have been from the moment the MS. fell int...Charlotte Bronte Emily BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my...Charlotte Bronte Emily BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849[From Charlotte Bronte's introduction to the 1850 edition of her sisters' novels:] 'One day in the autumn of 1845 I accidentally lighted on a MS. volume in verse in my...Charlotte Bronte Anne BrontepoemsManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 12 January 1848: 'What induced you to say that you would rather have written "Pride & Prejudice" or "Tom Jones" than any of the Waverley ...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written "Pride and Prejudice" or "Tom Jones", t...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1850-1899

[Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 14 May 1854:]


'I took the time of the Leeds-Keighley-Skipton trains from Mr Clapham's Feby Time-Table and when I go...

Charlotte Bronte Railway timetable for February [?1854]Print: Timetable
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to G. H. Lewes, 22 November 1847:] 'I have now read "Ranthorpe." I could not get it till a day or two ago; but I have got it and r...Charlotte Bronte George Henry LewesRanthorpePrint: 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 her publisher, W. S. Williams, 23 December 1847:]

'The notice in the "Church of England Journal" gratified me much, and chiefly because ...		Charlotte Brontė review of Charlotte Brontë, Jane EyrePrint: 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 Eyre"Print: Serial / periodical


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