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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
1900-1945'Am reading "Jane Eyre" and adore it.'Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Can you tell me about "Jane Eyre", - who wrote it? I am told I wrote the 1st vol: and I don't know how to disbelieve it myself, - though I am wholly ignorant of the auth...Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'When I [Harriet Martineau] read ["Jane Eyre"], I was convinced that it was by some friend of my own, who had portions of my childish experience in his or her mind.'Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'In various letters to Osborne he mentions having received "Tom Jones" which he did not care for; "Jane Eyre" he thought a "wonderful book"; in a volume titled "British D...Arthur Symons Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899From Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Journal, 'Tuesday Evening, 9th June [1857]': 'I have just finished Mrs. Gaskell's [italics]Life of Miss Bronte[end italics]. Years ago, ...Elizabeth Missing Sewell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
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
1800-1849'she said to H M, 'What did you really think of "Jane Eyre"?' H M. I thought it a first rate book, whereupon the little spirite went red all over with pleasure.'Harriet Martineau Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849'Read 'Jane Eyre', it is an uncommon book. I don't know if I like or dislike it. I take the opposite side to the person I'm talking with always in order to hear some conv...Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'.Marianne Gaskell Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945Transcript of interview: 'And another one that I loved was when I had mumps and was in the san which had a very small library and I read Still She Wished for Company whic...Hilary Spalding Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849[W. M. Thackeray to W. S. 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 whole day...William Makepeace Thackeray Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849[George Henry Lewes to Elizabeth Gaskell:] 'When Jane Eyre first appeared, the publishers courteously sent me a copy. The enthusiasm with which I read it made me go do...George Henry Lewes Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:] 'There are moments when I can hardly credit that anything I have done should ...Sir John Herschel Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849[Charlotte Bronte (as 'Currer Bell') to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 11 December 1847:] 'There are moments when I can hardly credit that anything I have done should ...James Henry Leigh Hunt Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849John Gibson Lockhart to Mr and Mrs Hope, 29 December 1847:

'I have finished the adventures of Miss Jane Eyre, and think her far the cleverest that was writ...		John Gibson Lockhart Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849

[Sidney Biddell to Ellen Nussey, 15 February 1885:]


'I am having a great treat in Cross's "Life of George Eliot." Most wonderful woman! [...] Writing ...

George Eliot Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899

[A former pupil of Cowan Bridge School, Yorkshire (the model for 'Lowood' in Jane Eyre), to Charlotte Bronte's widower, Arthur Bell Nicholls:]


'On fir...

Anon Charlotte BronteJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Francis E. Pollard Charlotte BrontėJane EyrePrint: Book
1900-1945'Meeting held at 22 Cintra Avenue, Northcourt Avenue, 25th April 1945
    F. E. Pollard in the chair.

[...]

2. The m...		Cyril Langford Charlotte BrontėJane EyrePrint: Book


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