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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	'Mrs Augusta Bramstone - owned that she thought S & S. - and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M.P. better, & having finished the 1st vol. - flattered hers...	Augusta Bramstone	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The families at Deane - all pleased with it. Mrs Anna Harwood delighted with Mrs Norris & the green curtain.'	Anna Harwood	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'The Kintbury Family - very much pleased with it; - preferred it to either of the others.'		Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Egerton the Publisher - praised it for it's [sic] Morality, & for being so equal a Composition. - No weak parts.'	Thomas Egerton	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Lady Rob: Kerr wrote - "You may be assured I read every line with the greatest interest & am more delighted with it than my humble pen can express. The excellent deline...	Lady Robert Kerr	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Sharpe - "I think it is excellent - & of it's [sic] good sense & moral Tendency there can be no doubt. - Your Characters are drawn to the Life - so [italics] very v...	[Miss] Sharpe	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Carrick. - "All who think deeply and feel much will give the Preference to Mansfield Park."'	[Mrs] Carrick	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr J. Plumptre. - "I never read a novel which interested me so very much throughout, the characters are all so remarkably well kept up & so well drawn, & the plot is so ...	J. Plumptre	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike it, but were very soon extremely pleased with it - &...	Sir James Langham	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sir James Langham & Mr Sanford, having been told that it was much inferior to P.& P. - began it expecting to dislike it, but were very soon extremely pleased with it - &...	[Mr] Sanford	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Alethea Bigg. - "I have read M.P. & heard it very much talked of, very much praised. I like it myself & think it very good indeed, but as I never say what I do not thin...	Alethea Bigg	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Charles - did not like it near so well as P. & P. - thought it wanted Incident.'	Charles Austen	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Dickson. - "I have bought M.P. - but it is not equal to P. & P.'	[Mrs] Dickson	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Lefroy - liked it, but thought it a mere Novel.'	[Mrs] Lefroy	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Portal - admired it very much - objected cheifly [sic] to Edmund's not being brought more forward'.	[Mrs] Portal	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: 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 Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: 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 Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Adml Foote - surprised that I had the power of drawing the Portsmouth-Scenes so well.'	[Admiral] Foote	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Creed - preferred S & S. and P & P. - to Mansfield Park.'	[Mrs] Creed	Jane Austen	Mansfield Park	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Captain Austen. - liked it extremely, observing that though there might be more Wit in P & P - & an higher Morality in M P - yet altogether, on account of it's [sic] pec...	Captain Frank Austen	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book

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