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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
1800-1849'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense.'[Mrs] Augusta Bramstone Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it ["Mansfield Park"]; preferred it to either of the others.'Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Charles - did not like it ["Mansfield Park"] near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'Charles Austen Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.'[Mrs] Dickson Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'[Mrs] Creed Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Digweed - did not like it ["Emma"] so well as the others...'[Mrs] Digweed Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: [of "Mansfield Park"] superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'[Mrs] Brandreth Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P. & P.'[Mrs] Wroughton Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Read "Pride and Prejudice" again last night. I think it as clever as before.'Harriet Martineau Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book
1800-1849Harriet Martineau, Journal, 9 January 1838: 'Finished Judges, in Pictorial Bible, which is a great treat to me. Finished "Pride and Prejudice." It is wonderfully clever,...Harriet Martineau Jane AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: 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 AustenPride and PrejudicePrint: Book



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