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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'I have been going through a course of novels by lady authors, beginning with Mrs Brooke and ending with Miss Austen, who is my especial favourite. I had always wished, ...Catherine Hutton Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
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
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 Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Yes, I think that Pride & Prejudice is one of the very best of the Austen novels ? and yet I do not quite rank it with Mansfield Park, it seems to take the line just bel...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I cannot help the oozing forth of my Io triumphe?although it is by no means my dearest friend, my turn for writing. Mr Kenyon came yesterday - & he had just been readin...Mr Kenyon Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'I sat up till two, as I did last night, to finish "Pride and Prejudice". This novel I consider as one of the most excellent of the works of our female novelists. Its me...Henry Crabb Robinson Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Also read again and for the third time at least Miss Austen's very finely written novel of "Pride and Prejudice". That young lady had a talent for describing the involv...Sir Walter Scott 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
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'I haven't any right to criticise books and I don't often do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't c...Samuel Langhorne Clemens Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'We certainly do not think it ["Mansfield Park"] as a whole equal to P & P - but it has many & great beauties...'Francis William Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849["Mansfield Park" is] 'Not so clever as P & P - but pleased with it altogether' - Mr K.Edward Austen Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'Edward Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'George Knight Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Anna liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P & P - but not so well as S & S - could not bear Fanny.'Anna Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Lloyd preferred it ["Mansfield Park"] altogether to either of the others'. ["Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility"]Martha Lloyd Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'Cassandra Leigh Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.'Cassandra Elizabeth Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Burdett - Did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'[Miss] Burdett Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P. & P.'[Mrs James] Tilson Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Fanny Cage - did not much like it ["Mansfield Park"] - not to be compared with P. & P.'Fanny Cage Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book



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