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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849'Mrs Lefroy - liked it, but thought it a mere Novel.'[Mrs] Lefroy Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Portal - admired it very much - objected cheifly [sic] to Edmund's not being brought more forward'.[Mrs] Portal Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lady Gordon wrote "In most novels you are amused for the time with a set of Ideal People whom you never think of afterwards or whom you in the least expect to meet in co...Lady Gordon Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Pole wrote, "There is a particular satisfaction in reading all Miss A-s works - they are so evidently written by a Gentlewoman - most Novellists [sic] fail & betray ...[Mrs] Pole Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Adml Foote - surprised that I had the power of drawing the Portsmouth-Scenes so well.'[Admiral] Foote Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S. and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'[Mrs] Creed Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Lay down on the sofa, reading Miss Austen's "Mansfield Park"... The novel, I think, has the prevailing fault of the pleasant authoress's books; it deals too much in desc...William Charles Macready Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Finished "Mansfield Park", which hurried with a very inartificial [sic] and disagreeable rapidity to its conclusion, leaving some opportunities for most interesting and ...William Charles Macready Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: 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 AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'[Mrs] Digweed Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it ["Emma"] very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all'.Harriet Moore Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'[Mrs] Brandreth Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it ["Emma"] to M.P - but like[d] M.P. least of all.'[Mrs] Lefroy Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it ["Emma"] very much, better than M.P.'[Mrs] Lutley Sclater Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Henry is going on with Mansfield Park; he admires H. Crawford - I mean properly - as a clever, pleasant Man.'Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkManuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Henry has this moment said that he likes my M[ansfield] P[ark] better & better; - he is in the 3d vol. - I beleive [sic] now he has changed his mind as to foreseeing the...Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield Park (3rd volume)Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'Henry has finished Mansfield Park, & his approbation has not lessened. He found the last half of the last volume [italics] extremely interesting [end italics].'Henry Austen Jane AustenMansfield Park (last half of last volume)Manuscript: Sheet, proof sheets
1800-1849'In addition to their [Mr and Mrs Cooke's] standing claims on me, they admire Mansfield Park exceedingly. Mr Cooke says "It is the most sensible Novel he ever read" - an...Mr and Mrs CookeJane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'We have called upon Miss Dusautoy and Miss Papillon & been very pretty. - Miss D. has a great idea of being Fanny Price [the heroine of JA's novel, "Mansfield Park"], sh...[Miss] Dusautoy Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Your late Works, Madam, and in particular Mansfield Park reflect the highest honour on your Genius & your Principles; in every new work your mind seems to increase its e...Prince Regent Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book


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