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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 AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: 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 AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1900-1945'The novel can't just leave the war out [...] What has been - stands - but Jane Austen could not write Northanger Abbey now - or if she did I'd have none of her'.Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenNorthanger AbbeyPrint: Book
1900-1945' "They were neither of them quite enough in love to imagine that ?350 a year would supply them with all the comforts of life" (Jane Austen's "Elinor and Edward"). My Go...Katherine Mansfield Jane AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: 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
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to William Smith Williams, 12 April 1850: 'The perusal of Southey's "Life" has lately afforded me much pleasure ... I have likewise read one of Miss Aust...Charlotte Bronte Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1700-1799'I would not let Martha [Lloyd] read First Impressions [later published as "Pride and Prejudice"] again upon any account, & am very glad that I did not leave it in your p...Martha Lloyd Jane AustenFirst ImpressionsManuscript: Sheet, MS of novel
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1850-1899		" ... Macaulay ... did not annotate his copies of Jane Austen except to record the dates of reading and to correct a very small number of typographical errors."Thomas Babington Macaulay Jane AustennovelsPrint: 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
1900-1945'Every time I re-read "Emma" I see more clearly that we must be somehow related to the Knightleys of Donwell Abbey; both dear Mr Knightley and Mr John Knightley seem so f...Gwen Raverat Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1850-1899'Reading Burke's "Reflections on French Revolution" and "Mansfield Park" in the evenings.'George Eliot [pseud] Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1850-1899'read "Emma" in the evening.'George Eliot (pseud) Jane AustenEmmaPrint: Book
1800-1849'The title is, The Neighbours ? just a title for Miss Austen you see! ? And for Miss Austen, you shall praise her as much as you please. She is delightful exquisite in h...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'It is a long argument ? but I have been reading quite lately & for your sake & for the third time, her two best works ? Persuasion & Mansfield Park: & really my impressi...Elizabeth Barrett Jane AustenPersuasionPrint: 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'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 AustenSense and SensibilityPrint: 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'We certainly do not think it as a [italics] whole [end italics], equal to P. & P. - but it has many & great beauties. Fanny is a delightful Chracter! and Aunt Norris is...Francis William Austen Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book
1800-1849'Not so clever as P.&P. - but pleased with it altogether. Liked the character of Fanny. Admired the Portsmouth Scene.' - Mr K.Edward Austen Knight Jane AustenMansfield ParkPrint: Book


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