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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	'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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'And Mr Hastings - I am quite delighted with what such a Man writes about it ["Pride and Prejudice"]. - Henry sent him the Books after his return from Daylesford.'	Warren Hastings	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Cassandra - thought it quite as clever, tho' not so brilliant as P. & P.'	Cassandra Elizabeth Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles - did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'	Charles Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Countess Craven - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but did not think it equal to P & P. - which she rqanked as the very first of it's [sic] sort.'	[Countess] Craven	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'	Edward Knight	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Edward & George. - Not liked it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P.'	George Knight	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Fanny Cage - did not much like it ["Mansfield Park"] - not to be compared with P. & P.'	Fanny Cage	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...	Cassandra Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I am exceedingly pleased that you can say what you do, having gone thro' the whole work ["Pride and Prejudice"] - & Fanny's praise is very gratifying; - my hopes were to...	Fanny Knight	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have been most anxiously waiting for an introduction to Emma, & am infinitely obliged to you for your kind recollection of me, which will procure me the pleasure of he...	Countess of Morley	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'I have read M P["Mansfield Park"]... I will add that although it is superior in a great many points in my opinions to the other two Works, I think it has not the Spirit ...	Alethea Bigg	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lady Robert is delighted with P & P - and really [italics] was [end italics] so as I understand before she knew who wrote it - for, of course, she knows now.'	Lady Robert Kerr	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1900-1945	'Meeting held at 39, Eastern Avenue. 20. 8. 40 A. B. Dilks in the chair. 1. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. 2. The Treasurer ...	Margaret Dilks	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book

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