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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 Guiton - thought it too natural to be interesting.'	[Mrs] Guiton	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Digweed - did not like it so well as the others, in fact if she had not known the Author, could hardly have got through it.'	[Mrs] Digweed	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Terry - admired it very much, particularly Mrs Elton.'	[Miss] Terry	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Henry Sanford - very much pleased with it - delighted with Miss Bates, but thought Mrs Elton the best-drawn Character in the Book. - Mansfield Park however, still his fa...	Henry Sanford	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Haden - [italics] quite [end italics] delighted with it. Admired the Character of Emma.'	[Mr] Haden	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Isabella Herries - did not like it - objected to my exposing the sex in the character of the Heroine - convinced I had meant Mrs & Miss Bates for some acquaintance ...	Isabella Herries	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Harriet Moore - admired it very much, but M.P. still her favourite of all.'	Harriet Moore	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Countess Morley - delighted with it.'	[Countess] Morley	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Cockerelle - liked it so little, that Fanny would not send me his opinion.'	[Mr] Cockerelle	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Dickson - did not much like it - thought it [italics] very [end italics] inferior to P & P. - Liked it the less, from there being a Mr & Mrs Dixon in it.'	[Mrs] Dickson	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Brandreth - thought the 3d vol: superior to anything I had ever written - quite beautiful!'	[Mrs] Brandreth	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr B. Lefroy - thought that if there had been more Incident, it would be equal to any of the others. -The Characters quite as well drawn & supported as in any, & from b...	Benjamin Lefroy	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Lefroy - preferred it to M.P. - but like[?]d M.P. the least of all.'	[Mrs] Lefroy	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Fowle - read only the first & last Chapters, because he had heard it was not interesting.'	[Mr] Fowle	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Lutley Sclater - liked it very much, better than MP - & thought I had "brought it all about very cleverly in the last volume."'	[Mrs] Lutley Sclater	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs C. Cage wrote thus to Fanny - "A great many thanks for the loan of "Emma," which I am delighted with. I like it better than any. Every character is thoroughly kept ...	[Mrs C.] Cage	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mrs Wroughton - did not like it so well as P & P. - Thought the Authoress wrong, in such times as these, to draw such Clergymen as Mr Collins & Mr Elton.'	[Mrs] Wroughton	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Sir J. Langham - thought it much inferior to the others.'	Sir J. Langham	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Mr Jeffery (of the Edinburgh Review) was kept up by it three nights.'	Francis Jeffrey	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Miss Murden - certainly inferior to all the others.'	[Miss] Murden	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book

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