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

	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
	1800-1849	'Miss Benn dined with us on the very day of the Books [copies of "Pride and Prejudice"] coming, & in the eveng we set fairly at it & read half the 1st vol. to her - prefa...	Jane Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Burdett - Did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'	[Miss] Burdett	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: 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 Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Sharpe - "I think it "Mansfield Park"] excellent... but since you beg me to be perfectly honest, I must confess I prefer P & P.'	[Miss] Sharpe	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.'	[Mr] Leigh Perrot	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr and Mrs Leigh Perrot - saw many beauties in it ["Emma"], but could not think it equal to P. & P. - Darcy & Elizabeth had spoilt them for anything else.'	[Mrs] Leigh Perrot	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Sherer - did not think it ["Emma"] equal to either M P - which he liked the best of all - or P & P.'	[Mr] Sherer	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'	[Mrs] Augusta Bramstone	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'	[Mrs] Brandreth	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'	[Mrs] Creed	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.'	[Mrs] Dickson	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'	[Mrs] Digweed	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs James Tilson - Liked it ["Mansfield Park"] better than P. & P.'	[Mrs James] Tilson	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.'	[Mrs] Wroughton	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'My Mother - not liked it "[Mansfield Park"] so well as P. & P.'	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Our 2d evening's reading to Miss Benn had not pleased me so well, but I beleive [sic] something must be attributed to my Mother's too rapid way of getting on - & tho' sh...	Cassandra Leigh Austen	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1850-1899	'Read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ...'	Robert Louis Stevenson	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'She read a great deal, among her books being one called "Pride and Prejudice", "Which is at present the fashionable novel. It is written by a sister of Charlotte Smith's...	Anne Isabella (Annabella) Milbanke	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.'		Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book

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