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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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...Patrick Bronte Charlotte Bronte Jane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 13 September 1849:

'Reading has, of late, been my great solace and recreation [in year following the death...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth Eastlake'Vanity Fair and Jane Eyre'Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...'Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'[Philip Inman] loved everything by Charlotte Bronte, partly for what she had to say about the class system: "Characters like Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe were humble individ...Philip Inman Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945[Alice Foley] read some Morris and less Marx, but for her a liberal education for the proletariat was not merely a means of achieving socialism: it was socialism in fact....Alice Foley Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'During these early years [Daphne du Maurier] filled her head with tales of adventure, romances, histories and popular novels, including such books as Treasure Island, Th...Daphne du Maurier Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899 'Both ... [Elizabeth and Alice Thompson] were reading voraciously at that time [1854-57]. Their father, by reading "Jane Eyre" aloud to them (with omissions), had give...Thomas Thompson Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'The hero seems to me superior to the Rochester or the Louis Moore type, who are all rather lay-figures. Nor do I admire the sister?s work [Wuthering Heights] so much as ...Leslie Stephen Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it .....Charlotte BronteJane EyreManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849George Smith, A Memoir (London, 1902): 'The MS. of "Jane Eyre" was read by Mr Wiliams ... he brought it to me on a Saturday, and said that he would like me to read it .....George Murray Smith Charlotte BronteJane EyreManuscript: Unknown
1800-1849W. M. Thackeray to William Smith Williams, 23 October 1847: 'I wish you had not sent me "Jane Eyre." It interested me so much that I have lost (or won if you like) a who...William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849J. G. Lockhart to a friend, 29 December 1847: 'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was written since Austen and Edgewor...John Gibson Lockhart Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 4 January 1848: '"Jane Eyre" has got down into Yorkshire; a copy has even penetrated into this neighbourhood: I saw an elderly...Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Mary Taylor to Charlotte Bronte, 24 July 1848: 'About a month since I received and read "Jane Eyre".'Mary Taylor Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
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1850-1899		Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 19 January 1850: 'Mr Nicholls having finished "Jane Eyre" is now crying out for the 'other book' [Shirley] ...'Arthur Bell Nicholls Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899" ... in the early 1870s, the ten-year-old Annabel Huth Jackson 'was terribly frightened by the episode of the mad woman tearing the wedding veil' in Jane Eyre, although ...Annabel Huth Jackson Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
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1900-1945		'[Alice] Foley continued her education by attending night school after going to work full-time in the mill when she was thirteen. She remembers choosing "Jane Eyre" as a...Alice Foley Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Clapton during the Depression, Michael Stapleton needed a signature from his father (an Irish navvy) for a public library card, "but I asked him on the wro...Michael Stapleton Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945[imaginative role play] 'One chauffeur's daughter alternated effortlessly between heroes and heroines: "I have plotted against pirates along with Jim Hawkins and I have t...Margaret Wharton Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: 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 Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book


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