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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Mrs C[atherine]. F. G. Gore, 27 August 1850:

'The book had for me its own peculiar value as a work often heard of and long wished for: I ...		Charlotte Brontë Catherine GoreThe HamiltonsPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 5 September 1850:

'You sent the tragedy of "Galileo Galilei," by Samuel Brown [...] it contained, I remember, passages of...		Charlotte Brontë Samuel BrownGalileo GalileiPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, George Smith, 18 September 1850:

'You should be very thankful that books cannot "talk to each other as well as to the read...		Charlotte Brontë Robert KnoxThe Races of MenPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 17 October 1850:

'Accept my thanks for some hours of pleasant reading. Balzac was for me quite a new author, and in making...		Charlotte Brontë Honore de BalzacModeste MignonPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 17 October 1850:

'Accept my thanks for some hours of pleasant reading. Balzac was for me quite a new author, and in making...		Charlotte Brontë Honore de BalzacIllusions PerduesPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 17 October 1850:

'Accept my thanks for some hours of pleasant reading. Balzac was for me quite a new author, and in making...		Charlotte Brontë George Sand (pseud.)Lettres d'un voyageurPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 October 1850:

'The box of books came last night [...] I am now abundantly supplied for a long time. I l...		Charlotte Brontë William HazlittEssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to her publisher, W. S. Williams, 25 October 1850:

'The box of books came last night [...] Jeffrey's Essays, Dr Arnold's Life, the Roman, Al...		Charlotte Brontë Sydney Dobell'The Roman'Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 31 October 1850:

'I showed papa the "Paper Lantern"; he was greatly amused with it, and would like to see the whole when ...		Patrick Brontë 'Will o' the Wisp' A Paper Lantern for PuseyitesUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to James Taylor, 6 November 1850:

'I have just finished reading the Life of Dr Arnold [...] This is not a character to be dismissed with a...		Charlotte Brontë Arthur Penrhyn StanleyLife of Dr ArnoldPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 23 November 1850:

'I am glad to hear that Miss Martineau's little story in the "Leader" touched you and made you cry. I th...		Charlotte Brontë Harriet Martineau[Short story]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to G. H. Lewes, 23 November 1850:

'I am glad to hear that Miss Martineau's little story in the "Leader" touched you and made you cry. I th...		George Henry Lewes Harriet Martineau[Short story]Print: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 3 December 1850:

'Your Will o' the Wisp is a very pleasant and witty sprite, and though not venomous his pungency may be ...		Charlotte Brontë 'Will o' the Wisp' (pseud.) A Paper Lantern for PuseyitesPrint: Pamphlet
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 4 January 1851:

'I found your note and "The Moorland Cottage," of which last I have only as yet read the commencemen...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellThe Moorland CottageUnknown
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'"The King of the Golden River" is a divine fairy tale. Richard Doyle has done it scant justice in his il...		Charlotte Brontë John RuskinThe King of the Golden RiverPrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'I am glad "The Kicklebury's" is likely to be successful; it has that interest and that pith without whic...		Charlotte Brontë William Makepeace ThackerayThe Kickeleburys on the Rhine: A new Picture-Book ...Print: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 7 January 1851:

'The "Stones of Venice" seem nobly laid and chiselled. How grandly the "Quarry" of vast marbles is disclo...		Charlotte Brontë John RuskinThe Stones of VenicePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Julia Kavanagh, 21 January 1851:

'I fear you will have thought hard things of me ere this — pronounced me ungrateful [...] but th...		Charlotte Brontë Julia KavanaghNathaliePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to Elizabeth Gaskell, 22 January 1851:

'You are thrice thanked — first, for the real treat afforded by "The Moorland Cottage." I told ...		Charlotte Brontë Elizabeth GaskellThe Moorland CottagePrint: Book
1850-1899Charlotte Bronte to George Smith, 5 February 1851:

'Those papers on the London Poor are singularly interesting; to me they open a new and strange world, ve...		Charlotte Brontë Henry MayhewLondon Labour and the London PoorPrint: Serial / periodical


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