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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1800-1849	Charlotte 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
	1800-1849	Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849: 'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...	Catherine Winkworth	Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1800-1849	Catherine Winkworth to Eliza Paterson, 5 December 1849: 'So you like "Shirley" better than "Jane Eyre"; so do I, in some points. In power and in descriptions...	Eliza Paterson	Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	Print: 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'One winter evening I was sitting over the fire engrossed in "Jane Eyre"...'	Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	From 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: 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...	Charlotte Bronte		[reviews of Jane Eyre]	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...	Patrick Bronte	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'I am afraid I never told you that I did not mind your reading Jane Eyre'.	Marianne Gaskell	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book
	1850-1899	Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 19 March 1850: 'I enclose for your perusal a scrap of paper which came into my hands without the knowledge...	Charlotte Brontë	unknown unknown	[Haworth working man's written response to reading...	Manuscript: Unknown
	1850-1899	'I had a most successful afternoon with Mrs [Humphrey] Ward yesterday. Their villa is a vision of beauty, looking over the Alban Lake on one side and the Campagna on the ...	Gertrude Bell	Mary Augusta Ward	Preface to "Jane Eyre"	Unknown
	1850-1899	'Aug. (Grand)'	Sarah Good	Charlotte Brontë	Jane Eyre	Print: 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: 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 Bronte	Jane Eyre	Print: Book

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