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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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 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
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
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		Algernon Charles Swinburne to Sir T. Wemyss Reid, in response to Reid's Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph, 24 September 1877:

'I need not say how grateful I shou...		Algernon Charles Swinburne Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine 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 BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Catherine 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 BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 29 March 1848:

'The notice from the "Church of England Quarterly Review" is not on the wh...		Charlotte Brontë review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane EyrePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 29 March 1848:

'The notice from the "Church of England Quarterly Review" is not on the wh...		Charlotte Brontë review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane EyrePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte (as Currer Bell) to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 3 March 1848:

'I have received the "Christian Remembrancer," and read the review. It is w...		Charlotte Brontë review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane EyrePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
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
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
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 16 August 1849:

'The "North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about "E. Wynd...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[article on Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, and works...Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 16 August 1849:

'The "North British Review" duly reached me. I read attentively all it says about "E. Wynd...		Charlotte Brontë unknown unknown[Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre]Print: Serial / periodical
1800-1849
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...		anon Charlotte BrontëJane EyrePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte 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
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 31 December 1847:

'I have received the "Scotsman" and was greatly amused to see Jane Eyre likened to Rebec...		Charlotte Brontë review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane EyrePrint: Serial / periodical
1800-1849Charlotte Bronte to W. S. Williams, 16 November 1848:

'To-day I have received the "Spectator" and the "Revue des deux Mondes." The "Spectator" consistently m...		Charlotte Brontë Eugene Forcade[Review of Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre]Print: Serial / periodical
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
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


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