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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

Reading Experience Database UK

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√	Century of Experience	Evidence	Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group	Author of Text	Title of Text	Form of Text

	1850-1899	Charlotte 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 Austen	Emma	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point. What induced you to say that you would have rather written "Pride and Prejudice" or "Tom Jones", t...	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice	Print: Book
	1800-1849	'Now I can understand admiration of George Sand; for though I never saw any of her works which I admired throughout (even "Consuelo", which is the best, of the best that ...	Charlotte Bronte	George Sand	Consuelo	Print: Book
	1800-1849 1850-1899	'I have likewise read one of Miss Austen's works "Emma" - read it with interest and with just the degree of admiration which Miss Austen herself would have thought sensib...	Charlotte Bronte	Jane Austen	Emma	Print: Book

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